Hey folks,
I was looking around for updates on "The Light Phone" when I came across this campaign for something called "Janus Phone". They took in $100,000 in their campaign, promised delivery in September 2015. Well it is now many months late and people are complaining on their comments section:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/340954677/janus-one-a-phone-to-simplify-your-life-in-a-smartThey had a $50,000 goal, they raised $100,000. Pretty much same concept as all the other credit-card phones out of China. It is even more basic than the Light Phone, yet they still managed to piss a lot of people off who bought it (see comments section).
And here is another one from the comments:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cphone-a-phone-designed-for-simpler-life#/At least the cPhone is $19, closer to the cost of an Alibaba phone. The Janus One and Light Phone are just expensive marketing gimmicks suckering people who have no idea the world is not supporting these turd phones anymore.
Possible SHIFT IN CROWD-FUNDING strategies?
I am seeing CHINESE COMPANIES crowd-funding their own products (really not crowd-funding) to simply increase awareness in foreign markets by using these sites to promote their wares. Before, "middle-men" were doing this by finding cheap Chinese products that were not as visible in other markets, changing a bit of the design and working with the manufacturer to produce and ship them out. Seems like Chinese companies would rather do it themselves.
Anyone else getting this feeling?