Apple is going to beat all competitors

[Marco Barreno]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:18:36PM +0100, thus spake David R. Newman:
> Nkoli wrote:
> > On 9/6/07, *Denis Parchenko* <cray at hotbox.ru <mailto:cray at hotbox.ru>> wrote:
> 
> > sold in the first 30 hrs than in the following month, but beyond that,
> > $399 iphones are highly detrimental to the success of the Neo1973. 
> 
> But the Neo, even as a small-quantity development kit, only costs $300.
> That's still less that $399. A mass-produced OpenMoko phone would cost
> less (particularly if it was ready to use in the Chinese, Japanese and
> Indian markets).

Unfortunately, the $300 base/$450 advanced pricing scheme was a special
discount for GTA01.  The announced price for GTA02 is $450 for Neo
Base and $600 for Neo Advanced; see Sean's "New Oceans" email:
  http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-June/006005.html
or the Neo1973 wiki page:
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973

At that pricing, though, it will indeed have a tough time competing
with the iPhone among anyone but the most committed free software
geeks.

Marco