"Ron K. Jeffries" <[email protected]> writes: > > 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.
Still, I'd buy one of those--if it came with a battery, display, and input; and a convenient case so that I could carry it in my pocket. > 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. I've been watching those, too; but I still don't understand them-- I just don't even see how to use them: how do they interface with the user? > 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. You must have bigger pockets than I do. Try as I might, I just can't abide by cargo pants..., so miniturisation has value :) > I purchase stuff that solves a problem for me. Don't we all? ;) On that note, I'm somewhat surprised that I didn't see even a single response to my post on this topic <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.qi.general/698>: ... speaking as a contributing member of the FOSS community: the best way to turn me into a contributing developer for you project is for you to make your project almost solve a problem that I have. So maybe a good question to ask is: what problems can Ben Nanonote almost-solve, and for which hackers can it almost-solve them? I would have thought that `what problems can we almost solve' would be a pretty ripe brainstorming-topic.... -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
