<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Roman Mamedov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rm@romanrm.ru" target="_blank">rm@romanrm.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:06:25 +0100<br>
"luke.leighton" <<a href="mailto:luke.leighton@gmail.com">luke.leighton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> <a href="http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/12/18/rhombus-tech-eoma-68-cpu-card-prototype/" target="_blank">http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/12/18/rhombus-tech-eoma-68-cpu-card-prototype/</a><br>
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> jean-luc, i've only just spotted this, doing a google search. the<br>
> very first line states "we, rhombus tech, a for-profit company, will<br>
> be going out of business by being a charity and giving away product at<br>
> at least a $30 loss".<br>
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</div>Well I for one can say that I am not confused by this.<br>
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"Targets a BOM cost of $15" as written on the web site does not mean "will<br>
sell to end users for $15". Of course there are other things involved in a<br>
cost of the board other than just Bill of Materials (e.g. also work;<br>
transportation - of semi-finished boards, I don't mean 'shipping' here;<br>
testing, etc; and profit margin). And BOM is just the cost of bare parts (not<br>
even put together), and that, only when they are bought in the thousands,<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>it wasn't even that! it was "we were told that a tablet ***COULD*** be $15". not "we are aiming for $15". actually it was "we were told that a tablet could be $15 and a laptop could be $20" - it might have been $22, i forget now, it was a while back.<br>
<br>we don't actually know how they calculated that $15 BOM. it was probably by leaving out every connector except one USB port, booting off of SD and providing 256mb of RAM.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
But I can understand that you are concerned some people will only remember the<br>
number and will ask "wasn't it supposed to be $15".<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br>yes. exactly. and so we may be accused of mis-selling and end up being sued. so - jean-luc: please take that mis-information off your web site.<br>
<br>many thanks.<br><br>l.<br><br></div></div>