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$32 million Crowd Funding for Android/Ubuntu phone
Saras:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 29, 2013, 10:49:49 AM ---thats why i'm saying "at it is, its not worth the price" get it?
the raw paper specs for it, even with a 40K unit run its still expensive at $830 a pop, hitting $32M for like what? even if the overall cost per unit to produce is higher due to finite batches its still expensive.
who in their right mind would buy an inferior product for almost twice it's price? well i guess apple and alienware buyers would but thats because they fancy the brand.
usually ubuntu users would be knowledgeable enough to root any phone to run ubuntu, why bother buying a pre-made one? you're taking the fun out of what ubuntu was made for.
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Uh, no. Ubuntu is the "easy to use linux".
It's certainly not developed with hardware hackers and the like in mind. It's developed to be understood by the average person.
mgz:
at this point it dont really matter i doubt any of us are buying one, and we will wait and see as the donors for it slow to a crawl
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: Saras on July 29, 2013, 11:09:48 AM ---
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 29, 2013, 10:49:49 AM ---thats why i'm saying "at it is, its not worth the price" get it?
the raw paper specs for it, even with a 40K unit run its still expensive at $830 a pop, hitting $32M for like what? even if the overall cost per unit to produce is higher due to finite batches its still expensive.
who in their right mind would buy an inferior product for almost twice it's price? well i guess apple and alienware buyers would but thats because they fancy the brand.
usually ubuntu users would be knowledgeable enough to root any phone to run ubuntu, why bother buying a pre-made one? you're taking the fun out of what ubuntu was made for.
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Uh, no. Ubuntu is the "easy to use linux".
It's certainly not developed with hardware hackers and the like in mind. It's developed to be understood by the average person.
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i thought that was mint but ok.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 29, 2013, 07:39:55 AM ---what else is there to be used? handset-atom which isn't any faster than ARM? unless they manage to fit an i7 in there somehow?
-snip-
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Have you noticed the release date for the Edge? All that talk about Silvermont is nice, but it'll be released long before the Edge is complete.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 29, 2013, 11:27:08 AM ---i thought that was mint but ok.
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Maybe you should learn a little bit about the things you're spewing all this crap about before you actually spew the crap. Mint is built off of Ubuntu.
--- Quote from: mgz on July 29, 2013, 11:12:10 AM ---at this point it dont really matter i doubt any of us are buying one, and we will wait and see as the donors for it slow to a crawl
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I hopped on, actually. $830 would have me hesitating, but $725 sounded about right to me.
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on July 29, 2013, 02:28:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 29, 2013, 07:39:55 AM ---what else is there to be used? handset-atom which isn't any faster than ARM? unless they manage to fit an i7 in there somehow?
-snip-
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Have you noticed the release date for the Edge? All that talk about Silvermont is nice, but it'll be released long before the Edge is complete.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 29, 2013, 11:27:08 AM ---i thought that was mint but ok.
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Maybe you should learn a little bit about the things you're spewing all this crap about before you actually spew the crap. Mint is built off of Ubuntu.
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that would be an ideal case if intel were to develop something after silvermont just before the completion of Edge, in this case thats doubtfully from possible, which means only silvermont or a better ARM processor would be present by Q1 2014 which would be the start production of said Edge if it were to hit a go.
whats your point?
i was merely replying that "mint" is linux's friendly interface, much more friendlier than ubuntu btw.
this got me thinking, why are you arguing with me?
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