XPost: comp.sys.cbm   
   From: rubini@despammed.com   
      
   "Mark Smith"  wrote in message   
   news:1142474046.617576.95070@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > Not planning on selling C64's ?  I should hope not!  That would be an   
   > amazingly stupid thing for them to do and they'd go bust in no time   
   > flat!  These days there is good money to be made on personal   
   > entertainment like the ipods and other toys .. the trick is getting   
   > that extra edge, iPod went for cool and funky and now runs on the lust   
   > value of the brand name even though there are technically better   
   > machines out there.   
      
   Well, Mark, obviously I disagree. Sure, selling *only* C64's would be   
   stupid, but selling a decent new C64, with a new hardware design or   
   whatever, would be possible. Yeahronimo does recognize the power that   
   concept has still today, otherwise why play the nostalgia card at CeBIT?   
      
   Since the demise of Commodore, a lot of users single-handedly came with   
   great ideas and projects that made possible for the C64 to complete  many   
   simple current tasks, such as reading e-mail or surfing the Internet. All   
   the new Commodore would have to do is capitalize what others have thought   
   and done already.   
      
   The DTV sold well beyond expectations, and still those units were far from   
   being the perfect upgrade -  think of the many flaws exposed in both the   
   NTSC and PAL versions. There are many ways to upgrade the old C64 concept,   
   keep it as a small computer as it was, and make it work for children or "old   
   children" like us. I believe a small profitable market niche could exist.   
      
   Riccardo   
      
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