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Development on Remix OS and related consumer products is being discontinued

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Re: Development on Remix OS and related consumer products is being discontinued

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"we decided to focus our company efforts solely on the enterprise space moving forward."

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Re: Development on Remix OS and related consumer products is being discontinued

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Take money from 'community', develop using that and get famous, get enterprise funding, stop community project and return the 'community money'. Good idea.

I was thinking exactly the same thing ... the Kickstarter backers were essentially Angel investors or VCs who put up the money but didn't get a stake in the company. That's a pretty good deal for the founders!

Re: Development on Remix OS and related consumer products is being discontinued

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Take money from 'community', develop using that and get famous, get enterprise funding, stop community project and return the 'community money'. Good idea.

From my experience seeing games on kickstarter, this is pretty much what is reasonable to expect.

I mean the whole model is 1. Get money from community to fund game development 2. Sell the game again after, for extra profit, because why not

And somewhere along the way there's usually a total mis-estimation of funds and resources

At least here something was given back to the "community"...

The entire crowdfunding platform is absurdity; I'm not really sure what people are thinking when they use it. Nothing given back to community, significant risk of failure, no real quality control or even a basic measure to meet, and extremely hype-cycled. Its mostly just a platform to give away your money for empty promises...

Re: Development on Remix OS and related consumer products is being discontinued

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post #7

Take money from 'community', develop using that and get famous, get enterprise funding, stop community project and return the 'community money'. Good idea.

From my experience seeing games on kickstarter, this is pretty much what is reasonable to expect. I mean the whole model is 1. Get money from community to fund game development 2. Sell the game again after, for extra profit, because why not And somewhere along the way there's usually a total mis-estimation of funds and resources At least here something was given back to the "community"... The entire crowdfunding plat…

> The entire crowdfunding platform is absurdity

The totality of this statement is what's absurd. There's some good stuff on Kickstarter etc., but Sturgeon's Law applies: 90% of everything is crap.

Re: Development on Remix OS and related consumer products is being discontinued

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Take money from 'community', develop using that and get famous, get enterprise funding, stop community project and return the 'community money'. Good idea.

> Take money from 'community', develop using that and get famous, get enterprise funding, stop community project and return the 'community money'. Good idea.

Well, some projects "forget" step 5, so at least there's that.

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