JoeDissolvo not looking for an argument or else I wouldn’t type that.
NTL will further change when it goes through an IPO and has legitimate shareholders to answer to.
I’m open to having a discussion about how companies grow and how they operate at different stages.
As one gains more experience they realise that’s how these things work and you decide where you want to be employed. My partner ONLY wants start-ups as it to constrictive otherwise, I went the prof route as it’s (more) stable.
We had a discussion about AI and staff (profs) started discussing Carl’s recent interview on a podcast about embedding AI and how it’s not going anywhere. Something then asked about my phone and watch. We talk about the strangest things sometime but it fits into the context of AI become integrated into society. I also sit on a board of governors for students aged 4 to 7 and we’re discussing how to employ AI in the classroom and how to train the staff properly in its usage.
When Carl was here a few months back I asked him about offering of RSUs and if staff accept them in lieu of salary and his answer was not often, which tells me a lot about NTL in the UK, and housing/living costs. I was hoping he’d discuss the pathway to IPO but the server hosting this site was flooded.
I think it’s important understand that NTL has to make money now, really now, likely as a condition of accepting that Series C and the rollout of “bloat” wasn’t prescriptively forced but likely a selling point for unreleased revenue growth potential (similar to the minutes over 300 used monthly on essential space). They have to start tapping into these things to get VC through the door.
Just like the 3a_lite. For Europe it’s stellar and looks great (personally I think it really dates the 3a series phones) and really says, those iPhone-esque individual raised camera phone are the way forward for NTL, which makes sense as it needs market share. Even the GL is reduced to a dot.
On the 4a, I would wager that those invidual bumps are present and GL is fully gone. NTL has to appeal to the mainstream now and sell units.
I guess simply moving CMF or Asian-market products over to Europe make sense as the profit margin is quite high for the pricepoint. I expect in Europe, we’ll see more CMF crossover products labelled as lite version, like the CMF3 being dressed up in glass with nice camera housings, simply called the NP4alite and people will complain about specs but it will sell very well. That 3a will be 200 GBP/EUR within 3 months.
I also hope the NOS 4+ stays quite close to 3.5 as it’s nearly perfect and I hope that a CMF_OS roles out with MIUI-style whistles as that would make sense for other markets.
I’d like to hear less about your observation and more about solutions and what you’d like to be seen actioned by NTL.
