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> It's as if someone launched an iPhone in 1985, and no one cared Commodore had no clue what to do with it. It's like Apple launched iPhone, then Jobs spent th
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
> It's as if someone launched an iPhone in 1985, and no one cared
Commodore had no clue what to do with it. It's like Apple launched iPhone, then Jobs spent the rest of the marketing budget on a yacht then told engineering to make everything cheaper. Eventually Gould and Ali were on 3x what the CEO of IBM got in the same years.
Tucked away somewhere, I still have the 1985 issue of UK's PCW (the serious magazine, comparable to Byte) when the A1000 was first reviewed. Something like 15 pages of glowing praise and how nothing else is in the same universe, it'll change the world, etc. They barely touched an Amiga ever again.
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoI remember an interview with Jean-Louis Gassée that mentioned after he'd been fired from Apple but before he'd gone on to start Be Inc., Gould actually approached him to lead Commodore before he hired Ali. Gassée said he'd only do it if he got a guarantee of non-interference for a specific amount of time (three years, maybe), and Gould wouldn't go for it. I don't know how that would have changed things -- Be came to a sad end itself, after all. But it's hard not to wonder.