I’d say just over a half million retail sales counts as big…
Now I just need to not loose heart as all the October reports take what’ll feel like an eternity to come thorough!
(I finally start to understand why a few month probably sounded reasonable when they first said it!)
I’ve been thinking this has become an online role-playing campaign, in some freeform artistic way. The phone is just a McGuffin. Or possibly a sociology/marketing experiment on how long can a group of people be kept engaged. Could be both. Anyways, the production values and the commitment to the roles has been outstanding!
I’m not yet sure what the point is/was but I’ll add it here when I remember it. I’m sure I had one when I started to write this…
Let’s make a list of all the things that have had an impact on delivery time:
limited options for open technology in mobile: needs some serious work (“baseline”)
tech needs more work than estimated: push release
tech needs more testing and development: “the forest tactic” of releasing test versions
test versions had issues: at least two component problems needed to be hunted down, fixed, re-built and re-tested
and about that re-building and new test versions: everything gets shut down in China for a while
time and general world economy take their toll: less budget for people means slower progress
things start to move a long… but: everyone else and their cousin want the same chips too
mother nature gets in on the action to make things worse: drought in TW slows chipmakers down
global logistics are screwed: never mind the Evergreen phone, ship, or the truck being sideways, there’s the little problem of container shortage (or rather: no containers in CN because they’re stacked in ports around the world because covid), so stuff moves around slower
TBC - because surely there are more things that can go wrong by way of Murphy, like:
– someone gets hit by a bus
– DHL gets locked and grounded due to ransomware
– chips are delivered but can only engage 4wd and open windows (small w)
– hurricane season is only few months away
– a tradewar and witholding of goods for a few months
– a kaiju attack
– a few weeks of precautionary quarantines due to familymember’s friends being idiots
– need to build a new 5G m.2 modem since 3G and 4G don’t exist anymore
– EOL for a component and no apparent replacement: redesign
– a new technology makes phones useless overnight
– (something else)
Purism has stated that it in part depends on their ability to be able to get the parts they need to fulfill the orders. So there may be hiccups, that is delays, and not just a lunear or better amount of the number of orders fullfilled. This has been not only afecting Purism, but an inordinate number of manufacturers of many industries all around the globe.
I hope to get some information about the shipping of my phone soon. 30 September 2017 orders have been shipped a month ago, so I was almost sure to receive my order (backed Oct 1st 2017) soon as well.
[edit: my shipping estimate was / is March 22th - 26th]
Since 18 days there have been no news here in this forum about shipped devices. My order is from October 7 2017 and I was hoping the same after September 30 was shipped. But only silence from Purism
Yes, and Purism said in the post that they want to reach shipping parity for the L14 „ … as soon as possible and with the help of some overtime we have an internal goal to ship through all existing orders in May,“