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It’s as overpriced as the SpaceX IPO.
by dotcoma 3mo ago
It’s as overpriced as the SpaceX IPO.
- Leonard_of_Q 3mo agoThat'd mean they sell for more than the advertised price given how the stock went up after launch.
- dotcoma 3mo agoWell, somehow the laws of gravity don’t apply to SpaceX, nor to Tesla.
- Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago> the laws of gravity don’t apply to SpaceX If and when that happens the stock will really take off.
- ranger_danger 3mo agoOverpriced relative to what? Phones that are produced at scale by the millions and so can have much lower prices due to economy of scale? That's going to be the case with anything produced in low volumes, but that doesn't mean they are overcharging for it. Most tech products are sold at somewhere around 3-4x what it costs the company to make them.
- dotcoma 3mo agoI have no idea how much it costs to produce this phone, but if you asked me how much it should cost, I'd say about 200 USD.
- pocksuppet 3mo agoThat's the hardware. How much do you have to add on to cover the designer and software people's salaries and the CEO's profit, if you're only going to be able to sell 5 phones?
- dotcoma 3mo agoIf all you sell is 5 phones, or even 500, the price doesn’t matter. A lemon is a lemon.
- zikduruqe 3mo agoBack when I designed phones, there was a minimum order of 50K units before an OEM would talk to you, and even then, they usually had a like-unit already in the production pipeline so they wouldn't have to retool everything.
- itomato 3mo agoThe BOM speaks for itself