Up to date graph: http://vertior.com:9000/
Great visualization, thanks!
Not mine
Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
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Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#62Up to date graph: http://vertior.com:9000/
That's a wonderful visualization, the second graph shows very clearly that the new strategy is working wonders.
I still think Shuttleworth will eventually top-up with his own money, but this should reduce his exposure somewhat ;)
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#63I am struggling to justify buying a phone now that won't ship for 10 months. By then Apple, Samsung, HTC etc will all have far superior devices
I doubt that anybody else will have more than 4GB of RAM or 128GB of flash in 10 months. There may be some phones that match it, but I would be willing to give great odds that there won't be a mainstream phone with more.
It's a 32bit chip anyway, can they even support more than 4GB of RAM? (or even all of that - PCs couldn't, it was 3.5 - 3.7GB visible to apps)
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#64Why do they have the same exact item/reward point at $625, $675, $725 and $830? It seems to me they're realizing there's no way they can reach they goal selling at the $830 price point, but why have all other levels simultaneously? Are people really going to pick 725 over 675 for the same thing?
I've donated useless $20 for nothing(except goodwill funding of the project), so additional $50 for the device would be something I'd choose any day without hesitation.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#65Selling out all the "limited" tiers still lands them $7 million short. I hope they make it (I backed the $600 tier), but I'm still doubtful.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#66Why do they have the same exact item/reward point at $625, $675, $725 and $830? It seems to me they're realizing there's no way they can reach they goal selling at the $830 price point, but why have all other levels simultaneously? Are people really going to pick 725 over 675 for the same thing?
One of the important points here is that each price level (aside from the last one) has an allotment of 1250 units. So, while most people won't buy at $625 vs $675, so long as $625 is available, it provides incentive for people to buy now vs later and risk the lower level selling out.
Edit: Although, the $625 level is now "1296 out of 1250 claimed" - so I'm not sure what that is about.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#67625 is sold out already. Any idea what the likely BOM cost to Ubuntu would be for this?
http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Samsung-Galaxy-S...
Suggests 400$ is achievable, which should leave them plenty of room for profit at 600 USD. Given the dropoff when the price goes up to 675 from 625 here: http://vertior.com:9000/ and the lack of marketing / distribution costs you'd think they'd do better just to leave the price low.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just wondering what scenarios you foresee you using the desktop feature in? If your travelling there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around. In which case you might as well carry a laptop. At home and work you probably have a computer. I think it is an interesting concept but I don't quite see the practical use. Unless it had like a stand and a projector or something.
I wonder the same thing. But I would be really interested in trying a small Mac Air sized screen/keyboard shell that had a port that I could slide such a phone in to. Sort of a portable docking station.
Reminds me of my old Motorola Atrix [1]. It had a laptop docking shell that booted a restricted version of Ubuntu alongside an instance of Android. It was totally cool, and everyone that saw it was amazed. However, actual usage was another story. Tegra2 just wasn't powerful enough to drive Ubuntu and Android concurrently in a usable manner.
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#69I don't quite get what's going on here. Is this an idea for a major commercial product or is it a quirky fun thing for the ubuntu community? The scale they're aiming for seems to imply the former. Usable as a desktop is a cool idea, but more of a "linux on your wristwatch" idea than one with real use. I mean, if you have a keyboard & monitor handy, how hard is it to have a PC too? Cheap micro desktops are coming out…
I mean, if you have a keyboard & monitor handy, how hard is it to have a PC too? If your phone supports use as a full computer, then the need for a PC is obviated. In my case, I have roughly 3500 employees, of which approximately 2000 have computers. Almost all of them carry smart phones. I envision a future state where those smart phones are also their PCs...they become more mobile and can easily access their data a…
I just wonder why aren't you investigating existing smartphones for that. Many of them already have HDMI connection, multi core processors and can be connected with bluetooth keyboard. The software most probably will not be problem with Android (not sure about other OSes).
Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
#70So long as a Paypal account is required to make a > $500 contribution, I won't be contributing at any of those tiers. I know I'm in the minority though so I doubt this will have a big impact on the overall funding.
I'm wih you on that. While we're probably in the minority, at least in the U.S. PayPal is not a monopoly with Stripe and other services around, so I make it an effort not to use PayPal and it's easy to do so. I havent't logged into PayPal in years and probably don't even remember my password.