Why not to make a direct 3.5G perk?

asked 2014-11-29 02:36:06 +0300

DiosDelRayo
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updated 2014-12-06 00:08:16 +0300

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I ask myself all the time what about this strategy in indiegogo. I think for the most people is the first stretch goal not really interesting because if you have a 64GB or 128GB sdcard inside it's probably to install once ant let it inside, so ext4 is anyway preferred. The seconded stretch goal, I don't know - personally for me there is no motivation, but okay. But what really no makes sense to me as I belief that Jolla wants to raise as much as the can why they did it in this way with the 3.5G perk instead of this very high stretch goal. I have no Idea what is possible with indiegogo, but if it's possible to make a perk which only is accepted if e.g. reached $200'000 through that perk, then it would make more sense to charge $90 for it, so at the end if 30% wants 3.5G it would make at the moment already $180'000 more. Let's suppose that the hardware cost will be $30, Jolla had $120'000 for make it happen. I really don't know it, but I guess there will be at the end something over to invest in other things... Just an idea, even if I'm not really interested in 3.5G because I purchased every time a 3G model but at the end I used only wifi or tethering over bluetooth.

answered 2014-11-29 11:08:11 +0300

Philippe De Swert
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Unfortunately adding 3G (or better) is not simply adding hardware cost. There is a lot of work getting it working right, certification etc.. Lots and lots of manhours. And since we are a small company we have not really any manpower to spare. So we would prefer to do what we can do well (since we also still will support the Jolla phone). Not to mention the protection money that needs to be paid to different players. So what you propose will unfortunately not even cover a fraction of all those costs. And that is the unfortunate reality.

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+1 for "we would prefer to do what we can do well"

DiosDelRayo ( 2014-11-29 13:09:52 +0300 )edit

Ok, so there is a lot of work to be done. What I see here is that if you do it with the current perk style, let's say the target is hit, then you still have to sell the 3g additions.

It means you have no clue before doing it how many you will end up with. Somewhere between 0 and 12k devices. So maybe that getting it to work right, certification etc. you have to do for a possibly low number of devices. Probably not 0, probably not 12k. Maybe 1k. maybe 2k or whatever (maybe higher) is realistic.

While, if you put an addiftional perk with a separate minimum value, you know that there are at least so many 3g enabled devices like you think you need to have...

dac ( 2014-11-30 21:24:48 +0300 )edit

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