Commodore was never a company that was backwards looking.
The very reason that I was able to get a Commodore 64 in the 1980s, which was like an ultra-modern spaceship landing in our village, was that it was affordable. Cheap even. It was not luxury. It did not have extra bells and whistles. Certainly not Audiophile grade sound output. Where is all this focus on luxury, gold plating etc coming from?
Why is a company telling us what we can and cannot do? The natural answer is aversion, and simply chosing another company. I want Commodore to succeed this time, so I am very disappointed in this stance.
I thought the disaster with the firmware lock-down attempt carried the point home that the Commodore fans don't want to be told what they can and cannot do. No browser? No thanks.
All in all, I really wish, I hope this will become a huge success so at the very least, Commodore will break even. But wow, what a missed opportunity. So close, yet so far. A few different product decisions to create a much cheaper and totally unlocked phone, I would have ordered two.
@Tom_Gamer It's not been written by AI entirely. Do you know why? Because it has typos. The one sure give-away that a human was still at work. At least in parts. Maybe the typos were added after the AI generated it, as I doubt the prompt literally contained "Add random typos to ensure the human touch". But who knows.
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Re: "This Isn't Your Granny's Flip Phone" - Commodore Defends Its $500 Dumbphone
The one thing I cannot get over is this:
All in all, I really wish, I hope this will become a huge success so at the very least, Commodore will break even. But wow, what a missed opportunity. So close, yet so far. A few different product decisions to create a much cheaper and totally unlocked phone, I would have ordered two.
Re: "This Isn't Your Granny's Flip Phone" - Commodore Defends Its $500 Dumbphone
@Tom_Gamer It's not been written by AI entirely. Do you know why? Because it has typos. The one sure give-away that a human was still at work. At least in parts. Maybe the typos were added after the AI generated it, as I doubt the prompt literally contained "Add random typos to ensure the human touch". But who knows.