Republic Wireless

[Tellos Athenaios]

Anyway, we're going to absolutely have to support iOS, probably on multiple devices. Testing, developing, generally screwing around. You know the drill. And one of the partners is really keen on racking up some expenses, since right now, on paper, we look like nothing but big streams of cash. (Apparently that's a bad thing.)

Doesn't mean you have to have the latest and shiniest iOS devices (heck, second hand ones might still be perfectly OK), though, presumably you want a couple of iOS 7 devices and perhaps a couple of one or two iOS revisions back. In any case Android in its various incarnations is the bigger beast right now. All in all buying test hardware adds up to a couple thousand bucks, I'd imagine? You're probably spending more on the plans over time anyway, so it makes sense to buy devices upfront let depreciation work its magic and save money on the contract?

FWIW I also don't fully see how liquidity is a bad thing when you're still trying to get product to market. As of right now I expect your revenue is right about zero (not launched yet) and you don't yet, presumably, know how long its going to take before it receives any uptake that translates into a worthwhile revenue stream. -- You've got to survive in the meantime, and presumably have other mouths to feed.

[Xiahou]

FWIW I also don't fully see how liquidity is a bad thing when you're still trying to get product to market. As of right now I expect your revenue is right about zero (not launched yet) and you don't yet, presumably, know how long its going to take before it receives any uptake that translates into a worthwhile revenue stream. -- You've got to survive in the meantime, and presumably have other mouths to feed.

If the money is just sitting idle- waiting for Uncle Sam to take a bite out of it, then yeah. That's less than ideal. It might be better if you can turn some of it around and reinvest it into the business.

However, that's not an excuse to stupidly squander resources. Better to pay taxes and keep whats left than to blow it all and have nothing. (I should probably point out that I have no formal experience running a business, so take that fwiw.)


On topic... I wonder when we'll hear about the other phones? I'm not 100% sold on the MotoX yet... but the price is still a strong draw.

Also, I've been toying with GoogleVoice VoIP via GrooveIP on my current android phone... and the results have been less than stellar. It works fine at home when no one else is on the wireless but at work where we might have 20k devices on our WLAN... there has been lots of jitter and drops.

I remind myself that GrooveIP is more of a kludge though, whereas RW should have the service dialed in better.

[Lemur]

As of right now I expect your revenue is right about zero (not launched yet)

Oh, uh, no. We already have people slinging money at us. I'll explain more later, when we're official and public and all of that.

II wonder when we'll hear about the other phones?

Are we solid that there will, in fact, be other phones? Having your entire user base on a single hardware/software configuration is kinda the IT support dude's wet dream ...

[Xiahou]

Are we solid that there will, in fact, be other phones? Having your entire user base on a single hardware/software configuration is kinda the IT support dude's wet dream ...

Pretty solid.
Unfortunately it sounds like they're still months away.

[Xiahou]

Ok, so it looks like their next phone will be the MotorolaDVX. Supposed to look similar to the MotoX, but have less specs and be in the sub $200 range

If/when that comes out- sign me up!

Gotta love the accidental info from Flikr.