TI has nothing to do with beagleboard.org but Gerald Coley is a TI Engineer ?
Which part I didn't understand ? Micka, On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.orgother > 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. > -- 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.
