funding is slowing down, but will be fun to see what happens in 2-4 days

BUT it really has to pick up somewhat MUCH or this will not be funded

This also gives you an indication what an epic over price Samsung, apple & Co takes for their high end devices. Selling their devices for 500-800 EURO when they not even pushing their speclimits to the max. The could push the specs so much faster since their is just a few heads running the "component store". That just another great reason why this devices is needed.

approx 12 hours and the lines will cross...
http://ubuntu-edge.info/

So I got into the Ubuntu Edge deal at $675 and funding was going great. Now sales are moving as slow as an injured turtle.

I think things are slowing down because the $700 price point is psychologically significant and best fundraising progress would be made at a price around $675 to $699. This could mean more units would have to be produced, impacting profits, but asking the market to wait a year and pay well into the $700's or $800's per device is clearly not working.

I hope they adjust the price scale again, and soon, because it's a lot easier to sell 4 Edges at $600 ($2400) than it is to sell 3 at $800 ($2400). It'd be nice to know the marginal unit cost of producing the Edge in making financial models, but you get the idea.

Fingers crossed.

Maemo: Great platform but has a proprietary user interface and other component are closed. Limited to Nokia hardware and some obscure devices.
Android: More open than the rest but google apps are closed and source code can be withheld (in the case of honeycomb). Widely available. Not the best architecture.
BBX: Great Unix like proprietary platform with some open components. Walled garden. Limited to Blackberry hardware.
iOS: Some open components but a locked down proprietary platform that is a walled garden. Limited to Apple hardware
Firefox: Truly open and not a walled garden. Some available hardware. Limited to web apps.
Tizen: Open source and not a walled garden. Uncertain future.
Sailfish: Open Source and not a walled garden. Best of them all. Limited available hardware.
Windows Phone: Proprietary and walled garden. Some hardware is available but all the devices look the essentially the same. Based on that Windows crap.
Ubuntu Touch: Incomplete and has licensing issues. Nice looking user interface. Runs on existing hardware and will have hardware of its own. More available than previous mobile linux efforts. Open source and more open than previous efforts. Not a walled garden.

Got some $ available, 20$ donated, a VERY small number in the grand scheme but should be able to donate 20$ more next month.

it still dosent kick me ! As it still dosent show any signs of infrared port. Damm ._________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________.

With the exception of some QtWidgets on some platforms, ordinary binaries are not linked against a specific protocol library with Qt5. Qt5 provides plugins for different protocols and you can choose them at runtime. Even without Wayland and Mir there are currently many different plugins for eglfs, linuxfb (and/or directfb) and xcb (i.e. the standward plugin for X11 now).

So supporting some window protocol is not a matter of an ordinary desktop program (even commercial ones). KDE on the other hand also delivers a complete desktop experience and has to offer some integration into the window manager as well. So if they say, they support some protocol they speak about KWin (and perhaps plasma etc.), but not, say, Amarok or Okular. While KDE and any other party could technically break Qt's platform abstraction by the introduction of some dependence on a certain protocol (e.g. a "Show all windows" button linked to a certain protocol library), it's unlikely that they would do this.

I think Shuttleworth have lined up some corporate pledgers for the last minute and I wouldn't be surprised if he personally kicks in $5-10M just to get this project funded.

(I got in at $600 level. yay.)