Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch

Re:Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch by lawrenceyan on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:00PM (#15349795)

Have you ever heard of the concept of niche targeting? I definitely recommend checking it out if you haven't. :)

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Re:Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch by imustbeevil on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:10PM (#15349898)

Niche targeting is how you end up selling 5,000 phones.

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Re:Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch by gue5t on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:22PM (#15350064)

With ~1000 more preorders the Librem 5 will be fully funded.

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Re:Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch by as1mov on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:27PM (#15350122)

To be fair, Essential didn't know who their niche target was (headphone jack haters maybe?). At least Librem 5 has very distinguishing features.

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Re:Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch by 5ilv3r on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:07PM (#15349866)

Juicaroo!

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