> Every single Be fan who purchased a BeBox to "support the cause" drained limited cash and support from Be Inc. Did they sell the hardware at a loss? > If yo

> Every single Be fan who purchased a BeBox to "support the cause" drained limited cash and support from Be Inc. Did they sell the hardware at a loss? > If you buy this and it goes in your spare bedroom because it's cool, maybe you run the demo to show a few friends, you've cost Be money and not helped them towards their goals. If the hardware earns a small profit, and the enthusiast does not call the vendor for support, but creates blogs/video/media to generate user/developer/partner demand, that should be net positive for the vendor. > What they want is a two man indie startup buys a BeBox and uses it to invent Zoom, or Blender, or at least Portal or something. Something that creates a significant demand from real users for Be's actual product, an operating system, and which is hard to replicate for the existing 1980s-style single CPU operating systems Be wants to compete with. A variation of this text/sentiment should be included on the marketing page for every hardware "dev board", including Qualcomm SDXE dev device from ex-Apple team, that is attempting to compete with Apple Silicon and x86 PCs. https://www.arrow.com/en/products/c8380-12c-mp-32g/thundercomm https://www.arrow.com/en/products/c8380-12c-mp-32g/thunderco...