steve wrote:
One goal of freeing the CAD , freeing the flesh of the phone, was to
enable others to seize these opportunities.
So, the CAD files for the FreeRunner are out there, before it has even
shipped. I think this decision is
underappreciated.
The per piece cost of plastic is small. Go price a pound of plastic.
The risk is tooling. We reduced that
by making CAD data open.
Long LONG ago, you had to pay big set up fees to Print a document.
That has come down over time.
I want to enable a world were you can print parts. Trust me, I am not
happy when I tell people
that they cant get pink. If you want pink, you should get pink.
That doesnt entail that I should build pink. I enable people to make
it pink by publishing CAD files.
If you think pink, then I'll sell you the electronics that go under
those pink platistics
One of the reasons because I will buy a Freerunner is this openess there
is in this project. Accondig me it is a so new thing that a lot of
person don't understand what it mean.
It is a new market, and a realy new street for an hardware producer.
I hope that in the future people will understand the value of this choice :)
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