> Common, take a look outside of your own borders. It's hard to inmagine an Open > Source phone gaining any traction at all in the US, land of software patents, > closed standards and telco control. There are quit a few OSS projects doing > just fine despite being illegal in the US, an Open Source phone will do just > fine without US support.
> And Nokia is not a US company, nor is Sony-Ericsson, both became major players > in this market before there even was any form of GSM coverage in the US. > 1. did I say it was not possible to exist as a company without the US? No. What I said was that a plurality of smart phones are sold in the US. It is a major market. And a huge amount of OS work is done in the US. To design a phone that specifically cant really be sold in the US is dumb. It cuts out a huge potential market. And given the high level of competition, loosing 20 - 30% of your market opportunity is potentially deadly. > > > We're not, nor do we have nearly the largest possible sales base. > > > > It is not true to say that we dont *nearly* have the largest base. > > whatever the numbers are, particularly for smart phones, I would be > > shocked to hear the US was anything but one of the top markets. Only > > japan could compete as a potentially larger market in asia. Certainly > > they are not going to be selling tons of these in China. > > Yeah, because it's not like there are loads of smart phones being sold in > Europe... "loads". Is that a new unit of measure in europe? It's Asia first, then Europe and the the America's, largely because > the US had an incompatible system of their own for years. And you may be > suprised about china too, 1% of the chinese buying a phone is as just as good > as 4% of the US buying your phone. And it's far easier to gain marketshare in > China then in the hugely locked-up US market. > Ok, so I guess this whole thing in your mind is really good biz dev strategy because they dont need the US. Lol. They need more strategists like you at FIC. Hank _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
