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		workbench on July 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crowdfunding the Ubuntu Edge will fail They targeted it wrong, the early adopter bonus shouldn't have been a cheaper phone it should have been a more expensive but exclusive colourway.

alistairjcbrown on July 31, 2013 [–]

You're completely right - to me the phone is worth $600-650 because that's what I could have bought it for early on.

There's no way they'll get me to shell out +$200 now. The reward system feels like penalising those who back late, rather than rewarding those who back early.

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