I already bought 4 Freerunners. I don't really think I'm getting many more. Now tell me, what's next?
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Al Johnson <openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:13:39 +0100 "Leonti Bielski" <prishe...@gmail.com> >> >> babbled: >> > I don't think closing such information (which is not any dangerous >> > inside info) would be a good policy for a company which main goal is >> > creating an OPEN phone ;) >> > Some of the questions like availability and price are not important to >> > me because I'm not going to buy it anyway, but I'm interested in >> > specifications :D >> >> actually - it makes sense not to be open. why? you cannibalise sales on >> the freerunner as people go "ooh.. ok. i'll just wait for gta03 instead of >> buying gta02". so it's bad business to go parading around your next gen >> device while you still sell the existing one (before the next gen is for >> sale). :) > > Depending on the feature set that can cut both ways. It could also be a case > of "I was going to wait for gta03, but I absolutely can't have a phone with a > camera so I may as well get gta02 now" for example. A must have for one > person can be a deal breaker for another. I pick the camera as an example as > I used to work on a site where cameras weren't allowed, but keypads and > screen resolution have polarised opinions before too. > > I'm still waiting for the Psion 5 form factor with modern guts ;-) > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community