Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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2014-10-27 , 17:08
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Originally Posted by endsormeans View Post
You tell Joe who works at the factory ...or Phil the waiter ...or Jean who works at the mall...that the neo is a superior device with the customer in mind ...that will...in the long haul...SAVE them money (instead of having little choice but buying a new smartphone every few years through planned obsolescence) ...and yeah...you've sold 'em.
No one....especially lower-income earners want to (or more bluntly ...can afford to) simply throw money out the window all the time...

Pitch it right...pitch it smart and alot of people will be lining up for one.
that's the plan for Neo9001. When we have demonstrated we can do, we demonstrated there is a market, however niche. And we got some working OS, actually even a few ones, some of them targeted at high security for the managers and politically active people (and of course for the average Joe interested in really good security/privacy). We will build a first device in a 3 digit range of batch, costing a total of a significant fraction of a million. Next iteration can go maybe 10 to 30 times that volume, and search for venture capital (or even simple 'classical' crowdfunding) that's willing to invest without trying to tell us how to build and market a "phone".

/j
 

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