grepGander no I meant this video with Rob and Carl where Carl discusses the real cost of phone design.
There is another video explicitly stating that 250k NP3 units have to be sold to break even, so one can back calculate profit per phone. Let’s call the cost of the NP3 at 500 USD per unit and sale price at 800, yielding around possibly 100 USD profit per device as wholesale pricing won’t be retail prices. Thus 250k units = 25M in revenue. So that would be the break even point.
I would guess that they’re around 12% surplus revenue per device, so on an (a) range phone maybe 40-50 USD to make back half of that 25M BoS for the line.
Thus, all of the spamming being added that is somewhat removed now adding 8-15 USD per phone with preinstalled apps makes a lot of sense at that could push the profit per device to 20%, which would mean less units are required to return the BoS figures.
feel free to discuss.
Gotta run the kiddos over to Iffley Lock before we entertain guests later today.
Final first run with 5.0 is below.
This is from Raymond Zhu (NP3 product lead) who Is like to see in the AMA but he’s not with NOTHING any longer. Notice the number of phones required to break even.
