Number of GTA02s ordered as of 10 Jul 2008
Matthew Lane
malane at purdue.edu
Thu Jul 10 22:33:42 CEST 2008
Dustin Knie wrote:
> Absolutely. I'm hoping they post some sort of stats for the first few
> days after shipping catches up. And based on the order numbers, i'm
> leaning toward probably an intial run around 1500-2k.
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Francesco Cat
> <heartcollector87 at gmail.com <mailto:heartcollector87 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I must admit I am really courious about how many FRs will be sold
> within the end of 2008. I really hope someone will tell us this
> number, don't matter when :P
>
> 2008/7/10 Kevin Dean <kevin at foreverdean.info
> <mailto:kevin at foreverdean.info>>:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Ron K. Jeffries
> <rjeffries at gmail.com <mailto:rjeffries at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> My gut says OpenMoko first mass production run was approx
> >> 1,000 to 1,500.
> >>
> >
> > I think you're dramatically low-balling it. You're basing that
> on the
> > number of phones ordered, but aren't factoring in the number shipped
> > to resellers who have the item in stock but haven't sold it to a
> > customer yet, the number in transit to those retailers and the
> > distribution centers (one can assume that they're producing are
> a rate
> > faster than they're shipping to customers), the number put into
> > people's hands as "test equipment" for major media outlets,
> > universities and the like. I'm willing to bet that, like Koolu,
> there
> > are people or organizations with devices that aren't in end-user
> hands
> > yet - an Android based Freerunner like the W.E. Phone (for instance)
> > doesn't exist yet, but it's safe to say they're developing it on
> some
> > form of hardware.
> >
> > Realistically speaking, the number of people with Freerunner's in
> > their hands don't matter too much. The only reason I care at all
> about
> > how many devices Openmoko fabricated is to know if they're
> generating
> > revenue to be secure in a future product line. The number of devices
> > produced doesn't correlate the the number of community members (one
> > can assume there are device owners who will never join the OM
> > community and that there are members without devices) and the number
> > of users with devices doesn't correlate to Openmoko's profitability.
> > Openmoko earns profit on devices that end up in closets and
> warehouses
> > just the same.
> >
> > And... A bit more bluntly... I think there's a reason that the sales
> > figures haven't been released. :)
> >
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On the where's my freerunner wiki page there are numbers in the 3000's,
and you have to consider that many orders are 10-pack orders, so you're
probably looking at something like 10% (guess?) orders are 10 packs.
10% of 3000 = 300 x 10 = 3000 + 90% of 3000 = 5700 from the online
shop. Again, a complete guess ballpark figure, but it's something to
think about.
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