http://liliputing.com/2013/07/ubuntu-edge-canonical-wants-to...
Crazy that Ubuntu needed $32m, while this kickstarter has only asked $50k.
The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
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#12Middle of the page, there's an image below the caption, "Multi-Touch Trackpad & Keyboard - With Android Navigation Keys". What is the mechanical pencil shown in that picture?
Rotring 800 Series
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#13Didn't a number of major vendors (Motorola, Microsoft..) already do this and failed to find a market for it?
There's been a few all right. I remember the Celio Redfly for one. None of them worked so well. That said, tablets didn't work so well when Microsoft tried them out 15 years ago, but they blew up later. Same with a number of other techs that weren't ready. Is this the time for smartphone computers? Nah, but keep an open mind!
> That said, tablets didn't work so well when Microsoft tried them out 15 years ago
Or when Eo/GO tried it 10 years before that!
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#14It's kickstarter which means it won't actually ship until at least a year after it claims. And there's no way they're going to provide a decent keyboard, touchpad and screen for $99 and still make a profit. It'll ship late and be probably 2x that cost at which point you should just get a chromebook. Or, ya know, use the laptop you already have.
Very sad that Kickstarter has earned such a reputation.
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#15Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#16It's kickstarter which means it won't actually ship until at least a year after it claims. And there's no way they're going to provide a decent keyboard, touchpad and screen for $99 and still make a profit. It'll ship late and be probably 2x that cost at which point you should just get a chromebook. Or, ya know, use the laptop you already have.
Very sad that Kickstarter has earned such a reputation.
Considering the amount of outright scams on sites like this they should be happy that this is the reputation.
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#17It's kickstarter which means it won't actually ship until at least a year after it claims. And there's no way they're going to provide a decent keyboard, touchpad and screen for $99 and still make a profit. It'll ship late and be probably 2x that cost at which point you should just get a chromebook. Or, ya know, use the laptop you already have.
Very sad that Kickstarter has earned such a reputation.
True, but sadly he's right. I still get emails from projects I funded YEARS ago that have still yet to ship a single product and they're still trying to make promises.
I'd argue that these platforms create a perverse incentive for people to exaggerate their experience and/or product to appeal to the clueless masses but I guess that's the same with most kinds of marketing ...
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#18It's kickstarter which means it won't actually ship until at least a year after it claims. And there's no way they're going to provide a decent keyboard, touchpad and screen for $99 and still make a profit. It'll ship late and be probably 2x that cost at which point you should just get a chromebook. Or, ya know, use the laptop you already have.
Very sad that Kickstarter has earned such a reputation.
But not very surprising. Projects promising the impossible raise impossibly large sums of money and attention, attracting more people trying to do the same. Since these are the projects that get most of the attention, they end up driving the reputation of the platform. Projects trying to accomplish reasonable things for a reasonable amount of money can barely raise enough money and when they do they fly under the radar.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very sad that Kickstarter has earned such a reputation.
True, but sadly he's right. I still get emails from projects I funded YEARS ago that have still yet to ship a single product and they're still trying to make promises. I'd argue that these platforms create a perverse incentive for people to exaggerate their experience and/or product to appeal to the clueless masses but I guess that's the same with most kinds of marketing ...
The same perverse incentive underlies all marketing. If you tell the truth and make sane claims you lose to flash, grandiosity, and viral gimmicks. Over time the whole system runs over a cliff. It's sort of a game theory meltdown thing.
It is eventually self correcting, but that usually involves a market crash and a Game of Thrones style winter where the junk is purged.
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