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[Mike Bybee <mbybee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/22/2013 01:53 PM, Jim Hodapp wrote:
> How can you get burned? You donate $600, the campaign makes it to 
> $32M, you get an Ubuntu Edge, if not, you're not out a dime.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Mike Bybee <mbybee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:mbybee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/22/2013 12:05 PM, Sam Bull wrote:
> >     On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 13:47 -0500, Josh Leverette wrote:
> > >     Cool. Also, I wrote a Python script for my personal use, to watch the
> > >     amount of funding that the Ubuntu Edge has
> > >     received!http://pastebin.com/TJ1Hvktw
> >     Thanks for that, just popped that into my conky script. :D
>     I'm so in - *really* want to throw down the $600 - but I've been
>     so burned by things like Ouya that I'm going to stick with the $20
>     pledge instead.
>
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You missed the most frequent option we've hit so far with crowdsourced 
hardware - it gets funded, there's tons of 
fulfilment/shipping/distribution issues and|or the hardware completely 
sucks and has "alpha" all over it.
See Ouya as a capital example. There's plenty of others, of course. The 
Nvidia shield may be another one, we'll have to see there. Several open 
source gaming platforms, the OpenMoko handset, etc.
Actually, you're more likely to get burned that to have it come up roses.

Sorry, I rode *all* the rides like that I can afford to. Only Pebble 
turned out for me in the last 36 mos.