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	ysss	2011-06-23 , 23:10
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Originally Posted by IsaacDFP

I cannot believe the N900 did not bring ANY profit to Nokia. Is there any actual sales number published anymore?? The least I could believe is that they got it at cost lol, to me that would still make it worth it. You might not won any money but you didn't lose any, and you made a lot of people happy.

If a company invests in a project and by the completion of the project they only get their cost back, then they'd better off just putting said amount of cash in the bank and collect on the guaranteed interest.

If you consider this to be an investment for the future somehow (image building, step 4 of x, marketing exercise, etc), then there's gotta be a clear potential income from that whole venture in the future.

And they've gotta consider and calculate all the risks involved to really assess whether it's worth doing or not. They ain't charitiy for sure...

Originally Posted by riceboy

Damn if they make it a N950 TMO limited edition and ride the bandwagon of hypebeasts and collab with some cool brand of some sort and set a premium price on it and have a 100 unit run or something, I would still try to make a way to get it. Just sayin.

For a run of 100 units, I'd reckon the unit price would have to be at least $50k or up.
Even Vertu runs much larger batches than 100.

Originally Posted by anthonie

Just hypothetically, how many units may a manufacturer expect to sell if he would decide to make a true geeks phone? And, being a geeks phone, I'd say it doesn't need more than an online store, right?

The company has to be run by charitable/idealist geeks as well; because this market segment is flush with profit at the moment. It would be foolish for them to sell at below market price if it's run as a normal 'business'.

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