So, can we expect the funding to fail? Do we have similar charts for other like fundings?
Personally, even the $600 watermark is too high. Perhaps I and my colleagues are not the right market, but either
* we've been fooled by prices on Google's Nexus devices
* the extra power doesn't justify the cost or isn't necessary for our needs
* we might as well get Lenovos -- half our guys have a history of dropping their phones or otherwise damaging their phone
At the end of the day, I connect to numerous remote hosts to get work done, which negates the purpose if I just need a shell and terminal multiplex and browser to run on my localhost. I'm not going to want to run my RDB, search DB, KV store, cache store, messaging bus, etc from that phone. The specs are nice, for a phone, but it's not a workstation.
I don't think so. This target for this crowdfunding project is an order of magnitude larger than the infamous Pebble watch.
I'm not sure we can apply the same rules. On one hand I think it will be even harder to reach the goal. But on the other hand I think the sheer audacity and scope might have some unexpected benefits.
Nonetheless, I'd say in the end we'll consider it a successful fundraising campaign. Even if the goal isn't met and the phone never gets created what's happened so far proves that there's an opportunity for Ubuntu to find a niche that's underserved with their vision of convergence.
Personally, even the $600 watermark is too high. Perhaps I and my colleagues are not the right market, but either
* we've been fooled by prices on Google's Nexus devices
* the extra power doesn't justify the cost or isn't necessary for our needs
* we might as well get Lenovos -- half our guys have a history of dropping their phones or otherwise damaging their phone
At the end of the day, I connect to numerous remote hosts to get work done, which negates the purpose if I just need a shell and terminal multiplex and browser to run on my localhost. I'm not going to want to run my RDB, search DB, KV store, cache store, messaging bus, etc from that phone. The specs are nice, for a phone, but it's not a workstation.