Pandora At Ces

[berichandcreamy]

Anyone else going to CES? I'd like to shake the hand of another Pandora owner being that there's <4000 of us!

Would have been great to be showing off a Pandora but chances of that seem very slim at this point. I'm one of the late comers to this party =/

 

[Trevsweb]

bit of a trek for the guys to make it to the US just to show off the pandora.
i think cebit would be more of a possablility but since the pandora isnt really going down traditional retail paths just yet i think it'll be a bit of a waste of time.

 

[Letalis Sonus]

A stand at such large events is really very expensive. Even a small desk with a single chair at the CeBIT can easily reach a 5-digit price. IF they will appear there, then surely just as usual "guests" lurking around (unless someone is sponsoring them or allows them to present it on their stand, but I don't think that would happen)

 

[berichandcreamy]

Well I didn't mean suggesting they'd get a booth there. I'm just wishing I had one to walk around with.

That and the team is busy making pandoras.

Would like to meet other pandora future owners still

 

[Miner49er]

Well I didn't mean suggesting they'd get a booth there. I'm just wishing I had one to walk around with.

That and the team is busy making pandoras.

Would like to meet other pandora future owners still

Surely some sort of 'meet-up' will occur for us 'First Batchers'?

 

[Jumpman]

Considering Craig has said before that they aren't looking for main stream success, a CES both would be a big waist of money and time. Now if they wanted to get the word out and drum up some real "BIG" interest, it would be a good idea to consider. I live in vegas, and I stopped going back in 1995 when they stopped showing video games, and E3 started. I went once or twice after, but once they seperated the porn from CES, and begin to charge seperate for that(it out grew the show like video games), I called it quits. In recent years they have started showing more game related items again. I keep saying I'm going to start going again, but the Pandora would have been a great reason to go back!


Jumpman

 

[Polossatik]

I would assume TI itself would be there with some ARM stuff? no?
Would they not be interested in showing off the Pandora as a "product case"?

 

[NLS]

Considering Craig has said before that they aren't looking for main stream success, a CES both would be a big waist of money and time. Now if they wanted to get the word out and drum up some real "BIG" interest, it would be a good idea to consider. I live in vegas, and I stopped going back in 1995 when they stopped showing video games, and E3 started. I went once or twice after, but once they seperated the porn from CES, and begin to charge seperate for that(it out grew the show like video games), I called it quits. In recent years they have started showing more game related items again. I keep saying I'm going to start going again, but the Pandora would have been a great reason to go back!


Jumpman

I think the OP is wondering if anyone from the community of first batchers is going there, not if OpenPandora will have a stand there or not.

 

[Kayday]

My family lives in Vegas and my sister can get passes to the show because she works for a battery company. I might be able to go depending if I can find someone to watch the shop for me. It'd be fun to pull out the Pandora in the crowd and see all the reactions. Like someone mention, drum up some interests and get some public press.

 

[berichandcreamy]

My family lives in Vegas and my sister can get passes to the show because she works for a battery company. I might be able to go depending if I can find someone to watch the shop for me. It'd be fun to pull out the Pandora in the crowd and see all the reactions. Like someone mention, drum up some interests and get some public press.

Yeah exactly!

Well since everyone is thinking about a what if pandora was an exhibitor, how about this what if scenario:

If a big company wanted to buy them do you think they would sell out? Thoughts?

 

[Tensuke]

No.

 

[Sofox]

My family lives in Vegas and my sister can get passes to the show because she works for a battery company. I might be able to go depending if I can find someone to watch the shop for me. It'd be fun to pull out the Pandora in the crowd and see all the reactions. Like someone mention, drum up some interests and get some public press.

Yeah exactly!

Well since everyone is thinking about a what if pandora was an exhibitor, how about this what if scenario:

If a big company wanted to buy them do you think they would sell out? Thoughts?

That's actually a good question. The Pandora is clearly a product of love, with it's creators being extremely dedicated to that. However, if the product is a hit it's not hard to imagine them getting offers from companies, some insulting, but some could involve a lot of money. The offer may even promise to leave the Pandora team their autonomy, and give further funding for mass production, marketing, and the expansion of the Pandora far beyond what could be possible with funds purely from sales. I'm not saying this is going to happen, or trying to encourage the team to make a decision one way or another, but I've seen and read about a lot of different companies getting taken over, it's not always a bad thing, and I was just wondering how the Pandora team would react under such a scenario.

I'd also be interested in how much equity the Pandora creators have over their own company. Since they seem to have been funded by pre-orders rather then investment, I would gather they own 100%, but I'd like to know for certain.

 

[mali]

It would certainly be their doom in the long run so better stay independent, imo.

 

[hobbyman II]

they already had some big firms showing interest and passed on the offers iirc, so I guess it is safe to say they will not sell us out, big firms have too much of everything now days, it's time for the small firms to shake things up, I think Craig might find there's a bigger market than he expected, there's a gap forming in the small,rugged netbook market, all the newer netbooks are more like small laptops than compact, rugged, portable devices, plus the Palm is effectively dead, I don't buy the opinion that high end phones fill the gap, that's two holes the Pandora can fill, portable, ubiquitous computing and net access is becoming essential to many people, and Pandora does fill a gap imo, if Pandora v2 had 3G connectivity I guess people would be fighting in the streets for a sniff of one.

 

[relapse808]

Anyone else going to CES? I'd like to shake the hand of another Pandora owner being that there's <4000 of us!

Would have been great to be showing off a Pandora but chances of that seem very slim at this point. I'm one of the late comers to this party =/

I am driving up on January 6th. I will be at the show on January 7th. If you are there then we should meet up and say hello. Pardon if I am hung over! :lol: