@guru, @wctaylor, jup, that was here: 3500 phones ordered
When the numbers were public, about 130 devices were ordered every month. Could be more with recent success / dev boards etc. Monthly monetary inflow ~$100,000.
I’d say now there are 4600…5000 devices preordered, at least. Until shipment, should be 5000…6000.
The most challenging decision, where you don’t want to be in Todd’s shoes, is probably how many devices to produce in the first run.
Make it 10,000 and put 4000 on stock? Or 15,000? Even 20,000?
Depends a lot on how well the final product will be received by the world.
You don’t want to have too many, but you also don’t want to have too few 