Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
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Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#2It's sad to see this die :(. Hope it will rise from ashes some day.
Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#3Looking for an "Angel"
Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#4It's sad to see this die :(. Hope it will rise from ashes some day.
Yes, kind of a pity, but we still have all this to start with, and I'm really happy for it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices
Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#5That's an ambitious goal for crowd sourcing...
Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#6I was in Shenzhen in the spring, and there are many companies offering to make electronics for you. Minimum Order Quantity 1000. Many phones were available for under $200 that looked fairly deluxe, clones of the Samsung Note 2 and Galaxy 3, as well as some with more features like FM, TV, Dual Sim.
Why did this project need to raise so much money? And why so high of a price for the handset? I think that this project would have succeeded with lower goals. We are reaching what Bunnie Huang suggested, the era where screens are pixel-filled, batteries are long lasting and improvements are incremental. http://boingboing.net/2011/09/27/bunnie-huang-the-best-days-...
Surely they could have done a phone in the $300-$400 range?
Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#7It's indeed sad to see this die but frankly it didn't stand a chance from the very beginning. $32 million is way too ambitious.
Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#8I was in Shenzhen in the spring, and there are many companies offering to make electronics for you. Minimum Order Quantity 1000. Many phones were available for under $200 that looked fairly deluxe, clones of the Samsung Note 2 and Galaxy 3, as well as some with more features like FM, TV, Dual Sim. Why did this project need to raise so much money? And why so high of a price for the handset? I think that this project w…
Then, presumably, it wouldn't be any different from other phones that exist on the market already, which completely defeats the point. This project is for better phone hardware, not just "Ubuntu on a phone" for which you can already run the development preview on existing phones.
Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#9Yeah, that's not Kickstarter. They're keeping that money.
Re: Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go
#10It's sad to see this die :(. Hope it will rise from ashes some day.
It was badly formulated in the first place. Ubuntu on phones is interesting because it's Ubuntu, not because some team with no previous track record in hardware wants to build a high-end phone. Making it about the hardware was unnecessary. How many of you would have bought a pre-configured Ubuntu phone on any decent existing ODM hardware platform?