kopirat

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I don't quite understand why it's necessary to remain secretive about the specs when you're already selling the devices. Maybe it's some industry voodoo that relates to how you trickle out information among competition or something, but unless you're planning to re-tool the CV1 and change specs before March, why not just let people know what they're buying?

this is the brutal truth. you can't open a post with "i'm an indie dev in seattle spending my life's savings to be a VR innovator" and yet know less than somebody who has spent an entire 15 minutes googling around for oculus info. the whole post is basically thinly veiled "please give us a CV1 and Touch thanks :)" with a little bit of price complaints to snatch upvotes.

(i) it's much easier to lose an SD card or accidentally leave it in your jeans pocket while doing the wash;

But realistically, this virtually never happens. You put your SD card in your phone, and that's the end of it. It's kinda like saying SIM cards are too easy to lose, it just isn't true. Nobody loses their phone's SD card.

(ii) the storage size is finite, you can't scale it to grow if you need more space, you have to instead swap cards, which means its unlikely you will always have everything with you in case you want to access it while on the go;

But if your cloud storage is limited to 100GB, then that too is finite. Hypothetically somebody could pay more to unlock more hosting space, but on the same note you could just pay more for a higher-capacity SD card. This all is ignoring the fact that 99% of users will never reach the 100GB capacity of your cloud storage, but nor will they meet the even higher 128GB capacity of an SD card + whatever internal memory their phone may have, which could be anywhere from 16 to 64GB.

(iii) cloud storage is always getting cheaper way faster than SD cards or internal memory

Cloud storage is getting cheaper and faster, but it's never going to be faster than SD cards or internal memory so I don't understand this point. Are you saying that it is quicker to download an HD video from your cloud than to read it off flash storage that is already connected to the device? In what scenario is cloud storage faster than flash?

Hi, I asked this earlier when you announced in /r/Android: Why do you feel that cloud storage is worth centering your phone on when most of the cloud storage capabilities you advertise and are proud of are already offered by existing, well-established apps, many of which come from Google and are pre-loaded on most Android phones? In other words, why should somebody buy your phone just for cloud storage when they could just as easily install Google Drive and essentially be done with it? Seeing as contacts are already synced through Google, as well as photos, videos, music and other files (Either through Google or third party apps that are well established like Dropbox or Spotify), what makes Nextbit any different? I appreciate how hard you guys have worked and I have nothing personal against you or your product, I think the hardware looks great and I absolutely respect you for the monumental task you've accomplished, but I feel like the cloud storage aspect that you market so primarily is a bit gimmicky and unappealing. I would prefer to just buy the phone based on specs and design alone at a lower price point by not having spent so much time and money on a cloud feature I have no use for.