You keep deluding yourself with the price, which renders your entire point moot. You can't compare prices of a pure OEM phone against a network-provided phone sold on contract, bundled with all kinds of weird software, and then locked to the network.
There is no smartphone of the Edge's estimated caliber at a price that low (the Nexus 4 is closer to $500), nor is there a smartphone of the same price that even begins to compare in specs.
Whether or not the phone itself will actually be worth the amount they're asking for is a different story, and I don't disagree that it seems like a bit much, but you can't argue the point based on a false price you give to an alternative.
yeah you're right the nexus 4 was at $400, i dunno why but i had the nexus7's price on my head when i thought of nexus4, weird.
http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Google-Nexus-Android-Tablet/dp/B00DB3SH2G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375883738&sr=8-1&keywords=nexushttp://www.amazon.com/LG-Unlocked-International-Version-Warranty/dp/B00ABPKHH0/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1375883738&sr=8-5&keywords=nexusAs for that businessman asking for a spare monitor, in the future something like that may very well be as common sense as asking to use someone's computer or laptop today (which in turn would have been absurd a few years ago), if Canonical has the right idea of what the future holds. They're trying to build something that will move technology forward, so stop comparing it with what we do here and now.
how far in the future are we talking about? how about just going with the flow and only start there when things are already available? wouldn't things cost considerably less by then?
its like buying a DDR4 ram now for $800 when it'll take about a year before you can practically use it, by then the same type of ram would've cost half or even less, what did you aim to gain from buying again?
i mean, i doubt starbucks would start having docking stations by 2015, nor do i think most clients would have a docking station too, unless they're considerably rich and their establishment requires them to have it.
considering by next year there should be i5-type convertibles hitting the market at sub $500 prices, even atom silvermont type tablets have an estimated price of sub $200.
so yeah, you won't loose anything if Edge fails, by the time docking stations are a mandatory facility then you could say that dockable phones would be worth a try, but now or next year it isn't.
edit: by Q1-2015 broadwell at 14nm should start to step at the realm of phones, TDPs of haswell already started hitting sub 8watts, broadwell's die-shrink should make it a reality, a high performance phone i mean, then docking phones are practical.
its also conflicting though, by 2014 google-glass would be available throughout the global market, i'd estimate by 2015 there'll be a much more superior product that'll have a much more practical use for such device.
Are you talking about 3d real-time rendering or not? If it isn't. Hell I wouldn't even do it on a high-end desktop. I'd rather do it on a farm it's just not worth it.
About real-time rendering, have seen the video I posted above? What do you think about it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJivWTHItjM
either, and well 3d non-realtime rendering depends on how big of a project are you trying to render, regardless of the case its time-bound.
the slowest processor can render it at a snail's phase, i'd imagine it taking a day or more to finish. for a laptop with capable specs, it'd take around a few hours.
I'm not. I'm an environmentalist. I don't just buy device because it's the new thing. But then again maybe I am. Because I still want it to succeed since it would help Ubuntu Touch a lot if they do succeed. And I want Ubuntu Touch to succeed.
you don't have to pay anything to get ubuntu touch to succeed, try visiting their forums since you'll see there the communities that're developing ubuntu, ubuntu forums i mean.
edit: speaking of which, Edge's situation is like Gaming Laptop's situation 10years ago.
"why game on a laptop thats 3x more expensive than a desktop"
or simply put, gaming on a laptop wasn't practical at that time.
the laptops were slow, you needed $2K laptops to game at some reasonable settings.
while it takes only a $800 desktop to game at high-max settings.
it took the market 4years to start mitigating the difference in price, $1K laptop about 6years ago were decent enough to play at good settings(GeForce 9800M GS or GeForce 9800M GT).
the demand was there so it aided the progress by quite a lot, but only by around 2010 did the manufacturers took gaming laptops seriously(GeForce GTS 250M to GeForce GTX 280M).
the same thing applies to Edge, hardware have yet to catch up both in terms of price and practicality.
NAND flash is still too expensive to scale up to 128GB at the moment(uSD card of 128GB costs about $150).
RAM density isn't practical yet to squeeze 4GB on such a small phone(they'll need to put four 8Gbit chips in it[
highest capacity available at the moment, used on 16GB sticks], that amount of die wont fit in the PCB).
CPU performance and power efficiency isn't enough to push a positive result on such a constricting envelope.
screens aren't developed enough for efficient mass-production of low-cost highquality screens(they only just started doing so).
even so pushing for $800 on a whim isn't practical either, we all agree to this anyway.
