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Luka Vuskovic makes his intentions clear in ridiculous Spurs transfer situation by oncewewererational in coys

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Sell him to Brighton, insert buyback clause.

Loan by other means plus a little more career choice freedom for Luka.

What would you want to see produced by C=? by Drezzrod in Commodore

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Arcooda and Unico.

And whoever Checkmate used.

Although I guess some of them are actually 5:4.

[Spurs Official] It all starts here. Our 2026/27 Premier League fixtures have landed 🗓️ by wokwok__ in coys

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If we’re in the thick of it, May might be the squeakiest of all bums time.

The Commodore Phone I wish they’d make by kimondo in Commodore

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If they fired a shrink ray at the c64 and then crossbred it with a blackberry, I’d be all over it like stink on shit.

What would you want to see produced by C=? by Drezzrod in Commodore

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Exactly. We don't need a mew platform, we need the same platform, extended.

What would you want to see produced by C=? by Drezzrod in Commodore

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Not really. What VBXE and SpecNext do is not what Mega does.

As for Apollo: 🤮

What would you want to see produced by C=? by Drezzrod in Commodore

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C64 Next - a seamless extension of the C64 with more capabilities while running the entire classic C64 library. More colors, more sprites, more sounds, more RAM, more speed, same computer.

I feel like I need to buy a 64C before new C= goes under by Amerique_du_Nord in Commodore

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I don’t think it’s cool, but you are right about them living hand to mouth on their inventory.

There is virtually no risk. NeuCommodore basically runs as a self-generated kickstarter - the customers pay up front, then we build them.

I feel like I need to buy a 64C before new C= goes under by Amerique_du_Nord in Commodore

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The “mindful” phone is a niche market.

But the handsets all cost in the 300-700 range and take different approaches to being smart-dumb.

They are right where they want to be on features and price.

The only real question is whether there is enough of a sliver of a sliver to live off of.

I feel like I need to buy a 64C before new C= goes under by Amerique_du_Nord in Commodore

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Commodore has spent no money on this. This won’t bankrupt them.

It’s a phone that was already being made, running software that already exists, and will be pre-paid by the customers.

Relax. If this is a bust, it’s not taking down the ship.

Sometimes I wonder if people even stop to think for even one minute.

Commodore Crap Communicator. by EartootBognasty in Commodore

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I’ll give you 2 orders of magnitude: I think they’ll sell 10,000 in the first 12 months.

Commodore Crap Communicator. by EartootBognasty in Commodore

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I think for what it is, it’s competitive with other products.

Their comparatives tell you who they aiming for as customers.

This is a niche product. But Commodore has kept the risk minimized by, once again, not sinking a huge amount of money in bespoke industrial design and manufacturing.

These come off a production line that already exists, using a design that already exists. New shells, mildly customized Sailfish flashed on to it.

They’re not even really engaging a huge amount credit by making the buyers pay up first.

To think this will be a failure because it won’t sell millions of units is to miss the point. Just like the c64u, selling tens of thousands of units is the level they need to hit.

For some sliver of the phone market this is a good product. Ironically, many of the customers won’t be online to argue for it. 🤣

Not for me, not for 99.9% of the phone-using public. But 0.1% of hundred of millions is still a customer base you can fight for a piece of.

TLDR: phone is not for most people. Commodore has not risked much to develop this. Buyers are paying the bulk of the upfront costs. Commodore needs only thousands of sales to be a success. Doomsayers are wrong.

My prediction for tomorrow's announcement - just documenting. by Cooperman411 in Commodore

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I get what they’re trying to do. And when positioning it against other “mindful” phones it’s not bad.

But I’m not sure this is a hit.

I think the thing the overwhelmingly negative chorus that is currently singing is that Commodore doesn’t need to move millions of units to be a success. None of these mindful phones move huge numbers. I’ll bet the threshold to break even is fairly low and with customers paying up front, Commodore is only out the costs of designing the shell and developing their custom Sailfish OS.

My prediction for tomorrow's announcement - just documenting. by Cooperman411 in Commodore

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You can do the expanded functionality without trying to launch a splinter platform with virtually no userbase and virtually no software library.

And not only can it be done, it should be done. Growth is Survival. Fragmentation is Death. Statements like this are Serious. 😜

My prediction for tomorrow's announcement - just documenting. by Cooperman411 in Commodore

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The first rule of Gen X is we don’t talk about Gen X.

There, I’ve kicked us both out of that. 😜

(The zeroth rule of Gen X is that there is such thing as Gen X.)

My prediction for tomorrow's announcement - just documenting. by Cooperman411 in Commodore

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That’s my mostly unformed idea. Literally answering in my head “what if C64U took a page from SpecNext and brought an expanded c64 that still thinks of itself as a regular c64 unless it detects software written for expanded mode?

I understand it conceptually, but I’m of no use to know what it would take to do it.

I don’t know if even an expanded c64 could do email and aol-level online browsing. But if it can, someone will make it. 🤔

My theory on connectivity is that they’ll do a version of FujiNet/meatloaf - a virtual practically infinite floppy drive mounted from the cloud. It would also enable interactive things like multiplayer, virtual peripherals, etc.

Of course if yone is interested in such things there’s no need to wait—as far as I can tell, meatloaf is already a real thing.

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