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I mean, that Peri Fractic clown "owns Commodore" now and tried to sell people a phone that was rendered entirely using AI.

Maybe Amiga people are ready to drink from that chalice too?

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Why do you feel he is a clown?

His behaviour, mostly

He's primarily an entertainer, doesn't mean he's a clown.

I think there are worse clowns in corpos without careers on YouTube.

Because he's seeing success and fame, while the parent (most frustratingly) isn't.

If it didn't matter to them, they wouldn't have commented what they did.

Success and fame in...selling an AI slop phone?

If that's something to be jealous of, I guess?

Wait, what? I'm on the waitlist for that phone as I thought it was a great idea in general, regardless of the renders. Have I been had?

I've never (ever) bought a phone because of what it looks like in marketing material.

From what I've read, the phone did not (does not?) yet physically exist

All his marketing has been via AI renders

The phone is a real device produced by Jolla. After being called out on the AI generated ads, Commodore apologised and had the videos remade using real people.

Thanks for that info.

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