Personally, none of my friends or family, have ever bought a phone outright. We've always done some 'pay over x months' type of plan.
I'm particularly hesitant to pledge a large sum (and yes, for some of us $775 is a "large sum" to drop at once) to a Kickstarter, even a Canonical Kickstarter. But, I understand and believe in the idea.
I'd be much more willing to kick in a sum in the range of $20-80, to get a reward of my name on the founder's page and a discount of the same amount once the hardware is sold to the public.
This means I can actually afford to make a contribution that is reasonable for my budget, and that if the hardware doesn't see the light of day the I'm only out a month's cell phone payment. More importantly, if there are others out there like me, it means that Canonical's Kickstarter would be getting a little bit more of a financial boost, and people like me would be buzzing about it a lot more.
A $775 phone is so 2012. This year, the big innovation will be Motorola selling a not-bleeding-edge phone that runs Android just fine for a cheap price, as many other 2nd tier OEMs are already doing for the prepaid market.
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Personally, none of my friends or family, have ever bought a phone outright. We've always done some 'pay over x months' type of plan.
I'm particularly hesitant to pledge a large sum (and yes, for some of us $775 is a "large sum" to drop at once) to a Kickstarter, even a Canonical Kickstarter. But, I understand and believe in the idea.
I'd be much more willing to kick in a sum in the range of $20-80, to get a reward of my name on the founder's page and a discount of the same amount once the hardware is sold to the public.
This means I can actually afford to make a contribution that is reasonable for my budget, and that if the hardware doesn't see the light of day the I'm only out a month's cell phone payment. More importantly, if there are others out there like me, it means that Canonical's Kickstarter would be getting a little bit more of a financial boost, and people like me would be buzzing about it a lot more.
A $775 phone is so 2012. This year, the big innovation will be Motorola selling a not-bleeding-edge phone that runs Android just fine for a cheap price, as many other 2nd tier OEMs are already doing for the prepaid market.