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2017-07-11 , 00:59
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Originally Posted by indie carmayne View Post
I'm a bit freaked out now... Especially since I began noticing the number 5.000 beneath every perk - 5.000 t-shirts? Really? But I guess it boils down to this: Chen probably had to give a minimal number of units to be produced so manufacturing is worth while for Foxconn. In another hardware project a production run required 4.000 units to be made as a an absolute minimum.
Originally Posted by lancewex View Post
I wondered about this too. $50,000 seems meager when you consider 5000 tablets at $200 is a million dollars.
My calculation is more like this:

Judging by the first 2 days of the campaign we have, conservatively counted, about 100 new supporters every day (Not every backer orders a tablet, some order just accessories. So I should be counted as 1 backer only despite 3 orders in total - Keep that in mind). Okay, multiply that with the 15 days of the campaign and you end up with 1.500 backers. If you take the average cost of a tablet at 200 Euros then you will be at 300.000 Euros raised.

If Chen can sell 5.000 units it would be theoretically1.000.000 Euros but you have to count the accecories-only orders in so it will be something below that amount.

Whatever the outcome is in the end I seriously hope Chen can beat the mark set by Jolla (661 gadgets set out in the wild).
Last edited by indie carmayne; 2017-07-11 at 01:14. Reason: Added in 2 quotes for better understanding
 

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