Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Sun, 01 Jun: >> however if you want just to buy a quantity together, just to reduce >> cost, or even just to help friends, then i do not see a problem of >> having no profit ... > > He has to pay for MoC tests out of his pocket, not to mention running > around between MoC, MoD and god knows who else to be able to bring the > phones legally here, so there is much more here then just a "group > purchase" and he's taking a financial risk that others that are buying > along aren't taking. He needs to be compensated for that in order to
last I read, this meant something in the ballpark of a few hundred thousand dollars to go through the israeli MOC and other bodies and start a business. that would make sense if you were selling a major gadget to Orange and Cellcloom, but we are talking about a very expensive phone that doesn't even have EDGE, it's still a GPS with 2.5G GSM, so I think it's a VERY small niche market of geek here, and should not be attempted on the public at large just yet. if I were a serious hacker (And I'm not) I would have bought one. At the moment I'll be happy with a "plain old" iPhone 3.5G when they come out later this month and than cracked in July :-) (and yes, as usual my sig really is random out of a file of 1675 different ones... I don't trust the random generators on Debian anymore) -- Telephone sanitary engineer Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
