| ▲ | dotcoma 4 hours ago |
| It’s as overpriced as the SpaceX IPO. |
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| ▲ | Leonard_of_Q 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| That'd mean they sell for more than the advertised price given how the stock went up after launch. |
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| ▲ | dotcoma 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, somehow the laws of gravity don’t apply to SpaceX, nor to Tesla. |
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| ▲ | ranger_danger 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Overpriced relative to what? Phones that are produced at scale by the millions and so can have much lower prices due to economy of scale? That's going to be the case with anything produced in low volumes, but that doesn't mean they are overcharging for it. Most tech products are sold at somewhere around 3-4x what it costs the company to make them. |
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| ▲ | zikduruqe 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Back when I designed phones, there was a minimum order of 50K units before an OEM would talk to you, and even then, they usually had a like-unit already in the production pipeline so they wouldn't have to retool everything. | |
| ▲ | dotcoma 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I have no idea how much it costs to produce this phone, but if you asked me how much it should cost, I'd say about 200 USD. | | |
| ▲ | pocksuppet 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's the hardware. How much do you have to add on to cover the designer and software people's salaries and the CEO's profit, if you're only going to be able to sell 5 phones? | | |
| ▲ | dotcoma 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | If all you sell is 5 phones, or even 500, the price doesn’t matter. A lemon is a lemon. |
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| ▲ | itomato an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The BOM speaks for itself |
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