Am I able to use the Transit app? That's one thing I'd really like to have.
bethekidyouwant 7 hours ago||
I need car play, eg maps + YouTube music. And fb and texto + messenger + whatsapp.
Price is irrelevant if i can get a “fully functional” phone without a browser. Oh i guess I could live without discord. But seems fine to have..
chuckadams 7 hours ago||
Speaking as someone who loved the hell out of the dysfunctional mess that was Commodore, and read every Compute's Gazette front to back as soon as it came out: FFS, just let them stay dead. I'm really sick of seeing my generation being strip-mined nonstop for nostalgia.
dotcoma 7 hours ago|
It’s as overpriced as the SpaceX IPO.
Leonard_of_Q 7 hours ago||
That'd mean they sell for more than the advertised price given how the stock went up after launch.
dotcoma 7 hours ago||
Well, somehow the laws of gravity don’t apply to SpaceX, nor to Tesla.
Leonard_of_Q 1 hour ago||
> the laws of gravity don’t apply to SpaceX
If and when that happens the stock will really take off.
ranger_danger 7 hours ago||
Overpriced relative to what? Phones that are produced at scale by the millions and so can have much lower prices due to economy of scale? That's going to be the case with anything produced in low volumes, but that doesn't mean they are overcharging for it.
Most tech products are sold at somewhere around 3-4x what it costs the company to make them.
zikduruqe 5 hours ago|||
Back when I designed phones, there was a minimum order of 50K units before an OEM would talk to you, and even then, they usually had a like-unit already in the production pipeline so they wouldn't have to retool everything.
dotcoma 7 hours ago||||
I have no idea how much it costs to produce this phone, but if you asked me how much it should cost, I'd say about 200 USD.
pocksuppet 6 hours ago||
That's the hardware. How much do you have to add on to cover the designer and software people's salaries and the CEO's profit, if you're only going to be able to sell 5 phones?
dotcoma 5 hours ago||
If all you sell is 5 phones, or even 500, the price doesn’t matter. A lemon is a lemon.