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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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