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Looking at those projects doesn't really seem encouraging for the Edge:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/scanadu-scout-the-first-me...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-...

- They all add significant rewards (i.e., not shirts) at lower tiers (you got an ouya for $100, pebble for $110 and scanadu for $270).

- They add much lower targets (the ouya had the highest at $950 000)

- Even the pebble, most successful of the three, "only" raised $10 millions.

The Edge wants more than three times that for something that's arguably less innovative (yet another smartphone) and wants us to bet no less than $700 on it (the lower tiers are basically charity).




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