Sebastian, It was a joke, obviously.
Significantly raising prices is unusual in this business. Time will tell whether it was a Good Idea. Ben Nanonote sold slowly at $99 (qty 1,300 over approx. two years) and Milkymist sold under about 100 units over a year at the lower prices. I am having some fun with my $35 Raspberry Pi. They are now producing about 4000 a week. I realize it does not meet the requirements of open hardware. But Debian is running fine, it is not the system of my dreams but will make a really nice server that runs on 3 watts. Possibly more interesting (to me) is this emerging "computer on a [USB] stick" that use the Allwinner A10 SOC. They mainly come with Android (meh...) but most also have a Linux port. Finally, low cost 7-in. tablets are widely available. At the high end (price) is the Google Nexus 7-in tablet with 16GB internal storage, and 1 GB RAM. Chinese tablets in 7-in. size are approaching $100-$125. Specs are not killer, but will be IMO very useful as a small portable computer. They do not have a physical keyboard, but adding a Bluetooth external keyboard is a piece of cake, On balance, the Qi-Hardware community is incredibly smart, and has developed a solid workflow and some tools. Your Milkymist seems to be (at long last) attracting a couple of competent FPGA geeks. Who know, it could eve love into THE open computer. I hope so. To answer Jon in this same mail: I purchase stuff that solves a problem for me. Ben and Milkymist are interesting for very different reasons. But I don't purchase things to support a cause. But thanks for asking. Be well, and just because we agree to differ, doesn't mean you or myself are Bad People. ;) --- Ron K. Jeffries On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq < [email protected]> wrote: > Ron, > > what good is your email supposed to do? > > Sebastien > > On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 07:42:30 PM Ron K. Jeffries wrote: > > Qi-Hardware [Sharism?] Announces Price Increase on Popular Open Hardware > > Products. > > > > with a smile. > > --- > > Ron K. Jeffries > > 805-567-4670 > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
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