On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:03:59 +0800 Simon Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> The big companies making these hi-tech electronic parts are probably > only interested in orders it the hundred of thousands if not millions of > parts. 500k+ are the order sizes. often in multi-millions. that is what they "start" dealing with. it's like going to cost-co who sell beer by the case and going "but we only want 1 bottle!" (sorry - buy the case, or go somewhere else). :) > There is less risk to them of intellectual property being stolen or > parts copied having a few customers buying large quantities at low > margins than lots of smaller companies buying small numbers at higher > margins and it is also less hassle. It is probably not worth the big > companies to get their lawyers to draw up the contracts for small > quantities (we all know how much lawyers cost!) > > Then there are the cosy exclusive deals that only the big companies have > the power to negotiate. > > I would think it has been a big advantage for Openmoko having FIC > behind it when trying to source all the specialised components. > > Even then they are still a small fish in a very large and expensive > pond. > > > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 19:15 -0700, Dave O'Connor wrote: > > > Thanks for the response and don't take this the wrong way but it doesn't > > really answer my question. :) > > > > Openmoko could take these sweet spec components and do stuff with them. > > That would lead to increased sales for these component manufacturers. > > It's in their interest to make them, and hopefully therefore the specs, > > available to you. 1) Why don't they make the components available to > > anyone other than the manufacturers for phones meant for the japanese > > market, even those who wouldn't care about open specs? > > > > Regards > > Dave > > > > > -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community