On 08/05/2013 12:29 PM, Omar B. wrote:
Yes. Shuttleworth has even said that the/entire/ purpose of this campaign is to
judge if there's a market for
_super high end_ phones. Adding a mid range phone just to make this
campaign succeed does not measure the market appeal of the superphones,
and it doesn't make manufacturing those superphones any more affordable
(quantity is important, if you can't meet the quantity, the price is
prohibitive).
That's pretty absurd.
What's absurd? They need to make 40,000 phones in order to have a high
enough run to get costs down to something reasonable. They're saying
"if 40,000 people want to buy this phone for the $800 it costs to
manufacture, we'll do it".
Since it doesn't seem they'll get 40,000 buyers interested, there's no
reason to make it otherwise.
They can't just lower the specs, because then they won't be delivering
the product that people paid for. And they can't add a different model
without getting an additional 40,000 buyers for the new model. It'd
double their required goal.
Why back a company, specially in a crowdsourcing campaign that will not
do everything in its power and just let it die? If they don't show any
effort then they just not kill this, but the trust of everyone (the
backers, the critics, the media, etc.).
Because that's what crowdfunding (not croudsourcing) means. You reach
out with a product and say "Is there an audience for this?" Sometimes
the answer is "no".
Ubuntu Edge is only about a high-end convergence device that exceeds
what we have now. Meanwhile, the software development continues and
work with consumer-level OEMs goes on. We'll have Ubuntu-based phones
in a year from now, one way or another, and they'll satisfy the mediocre
hardware requirements and pricing you want. There's no reason to
compromise this campaign with what's already out there.
Canonical is basically doing market research. The reason OEMs and
carriers won't do this is because they're too risk-adverse. Eventually,
the community has to get away from the idea that striving for something
difficult and falling short is a failure that carries an inescapable
stigma. You won't succeed every time you try, but if you never try
you'll never succeed.
Regards,
Nathan
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