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At current levels they need more than 30,000 people to commit to buy an $830 dollar phone which is not expected to released for at least 10 months and with next

• josh2600 13y ago
  To me, this isn't so much the problem as the realities of producing a phone with a Bill of Materials like the one they're intending. I can't imagine that spec sheet, at the end of 2013/beginning of 2014, is going to be cheap. They'd be hard pressed to manufacture this phone at all, let alone with sapphire screens and such. Think of it this way, Samsung won't even broker a discussion about RAM unless you order >100k units. If they sold 32M of phones at $600, that's about 53k handsets, which is about half of an initial production run for any serious manufacturer. I'm bearish, but I'd be thrilled if we had another competitor against iOS and Android. Blackberry and WP8 are not real contenders, Canonical could easily get the 3rd slot.
• stusmall 13y ago
  OR some last minute corporate padding. Either by lots of in house $20 donations or if its a lot left then Shuttleworth saying "Oh we were so close... you know what, I'll write a check for the balance!" They've got a lot to gain from meeting their goal. It will show the big phone manufacturers that there is demand for this new phone OS.