Venkat, On Monday, March 17, 2014 4:36:42 PM UTC-5, Venkat Bommakanti wrote: > > On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:20 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >> >> ... I would have no problem paying $75 for this board if we could >>> guarantee availibility and continued support (ie being able to stay in >>> business).... >>> >> > Have a feeling, even at an hiked up unit price of $75, the hoarders will > gobble them up in large #s, and pass the extra cost on to their customers - > after all, the free market price would also be $75. I doubt TI could > guarantee supplies even at that price - unless something is done to prevent > *productizers* from bulk-ordering huge quantities. > > TI supposedly released this board as a "community product" and should try > and pursue that goal and not just give up that easy. By hiking the price to > say $55/60, and through beaglebone.org, TI can allow for the purchase of > just a couple of boards to a given shipping address, it can be done since > the extra cost could be used to support this option... Many MIR promoters > do that today, not entirely impossible (even $60 ARM quad-core based board > manufactures do it - 1 per forum member/acct). So beagleboard can make it > say 2 or 3 or some reasonable small #. The hoarders can always buy from > those other distributors - whose stock-notification scheme is a mere joke. > 10mins into getting an email - they are back to 0-stock. > > just a clarification here: TI has nothing to do with beagleboard.org other than sell circuitco the processors to be used on beagleboard.org products
http://beagleboard.org/about Dave > Gerald, > > Pl. figure out a reasonably affordable scheme for the community and > another for market-driven scene, where folks are building products using > these, against all (practically legally non-enforceable) warnings. The > entire learning/maker community, imho, is being heavily penalized, for the > actions of a few hoarders. > > thanks. > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
