Pricing has yet to be determined, but obviously importation and duties have to be considered. You can't compare the retail price of a product in its home region to abroad.
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So...I guess this is correct, the new Deep 6 computer will be a rebadged divecomputer.edu, but at a somewhat higher price. I guess we will see. Not what we were all expecting.
You have to admit, an inexpensive computer running Buhlmann with preset GFs would have been quite a draw. We'll all have to decide about your new offeringHonestly, that isn't what I was saying, I am just generally commenting on how prices don't directly translate between markets.... thank governments and logistics for that.
But yes as far as the old puck computer design is concerned, it has been dropped. Chris explained why above, and I am quite shocked at some of the reactions we have gotten. The product did not live up to our expectations, and we refuse to bring a product into production that we do not want to stand behind. What is the alternative? Release a crap product for people to buy and then complain about more?
... maybe we should consider no longer posting about any of our development projects.
an inexpensive computer running Buhlmann with preset GFs would have been quite a draw.
We'll all have to decide about your new offering
I think it's cool that you shared the development process with everyone here. You were honest when things started to change and now on to 'Plan B' or whatever. Love your products and your business model! Thanks for sharing!
It's a double-edged sword as you have very directly experienced. Very competent, successful, experienced people will tell you to get customer reactions and involvement at the earliest possible point. Other very competent, successful, people will ask "why would I ask a customer what he/she wants or thinks?" and go on to great success.
I'm going to expose my vulnerability here and admit I was a huge fan of Google Glass. My son was one of the very first Glass 'explorers', and I couldn't wait to get Google to shut up and take my money. The amount of complaining and carping on the Glass threads in various forums, especially Google+, was amazing. And the overall public reaction to 'glassholes' did, I think, take them a little by surprise. I know absolutely that several key members of the Glass team felt deeply affronted by the public reaction. In the end, Google pulled the plug (causing a major mutiny by the Glassfans), at least on the consumer version. (Glass for Business) is still underway as far as I know. In the end, the people who control the capital decided it wasn't a product they should take to market at scale at that time. The owners get to decide those things, and the customers vote with their dollars. Doesn't appear to me that the Glassfans boycott has hurt Google (now Alphabet) at the macro level, at least if the share price is any indication.
From their website this morning. Of course there is a message that it is not available in my country (yet, ). $541 at today's rate.Huh, I'm seeing it for 545 Euro's, it doesn't show up as 466 Euros for me anywhere. Freaking weird. Maybe it's because I'm on a Mac . It's much more appealing at $545, but like Landon mentioned, even as an individual purchaser, you'd be paying duty on the import. As a distributor, it's not like they get to skip out on that stuff because they're buying 100 at a time. I think keeping it affordable would be the biggest hurdle.