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There are significant fixed costs, you can't just divide the required goal by 32 to produce 1/32 of the number of phones. I'd guess that $1M wouldn't be enough
by archangel_one 13y ago
There are significant fixed costs, you can't just divide the required goal by 32 to produce 1/32 of the number of phones. I'd guess that $1M wouldn't be enough to even produce one of those phones.
- hmottestad 13y agoThat is a downside yes. The question still remains. Would more people have pledged knowing that the project would get funded? Essentially this would be like preordering it.
- archangel_one 13y agoBut the problem is that if it reached the goal of $1M but didn't get far past it, they'd be expected to then supply the phones those people had pledged for without actually having enough money to produce them.
- freehunter 13y agoI've backed Kickstarters only after they've already reached their goal, just for the sake of preordering the product. Yes, Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are not meant to be storefronts and I might be a bad citizen for treating it as such, but the incentive is there. If the developers are going to treat these fundraisers as a place to sell a product, I'm going to use these fundraisers as a place to buy a product. Especially in cases where the Kickstarter product is significantly less than the price of the product when it hits retail. If you tell me I can "buy" your product for $8 on Kickstarter and get the product in the mail weeks before it's officially for sale, or I could wait longer and buy it for $20, what do you expect me to do?
- pessimizer 13y agoOr would fewer have pledged? I'd be willing to bet there were a substantial number of people who pledged in order to convince Ubuntu that there was interest in the phone, but knowing that they wouldn't have to commit funds to it right now (at least not permanently.)