Best thing: Todd says they want to ship ~ 50,000 units before the end of Q1.
That is very reassuring and explains why the team page now shows 13 more faces (well… pending I guess) than a month ago.
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It is very reassuring that, even if they don’t hit the 50k target, they have confidence in their processes and supply chain to hit that number.
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why not if the demand is strong enough ?
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That might explain why they have a “Buy now” button for the phone front and center on their home page. If they expected the backlog to be around for a while, then I would expect that they would not do that.
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He does say that in the video, but did he actually mean that, maybe he misspoke in some way? That many before Q1, that is before Evergreen! Could they really have that many preorders now?? It’s crazy, at least 10 times more than I was expecting.
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Well, only 2…5 times more than I was expecting
I had collected all hints in the “campaign outcome” section of the chronology.
But yes, I was also wondering whether he meant to say “by the end of Q2”. But that’s secondary. Having several k pre-orders already is awesome either way.
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Say what? Q1 has already been and gone? Or does this mean end of CY2020 Q1?
Even so I would like them to prioritise the early backers who are still waiting for a phone and who are in the first 1% of that 50,000 units. 
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Todd Weaver just posted a new picture:
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Fast application of his promise 
We know that many of you have been frustrated by the lack of public updates around the Aspen batch until now, and we hear you. We are trying to balance the myriad (but imminently solvable) challenges of perfecting the Librem 5, with the aim to update all of you with detailed updates as early and often as we can.
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Everyone thinking of canceling their order for the Librem 5 should first watch Hackersgame’s video “Librem 5 | In Less Than a Year”.
I have been seeing so much progress in the Librem 5 Qemu images, in the upstream commits in the Linux kernel and GTK/GNOME stack, and in the Librem 5 code repo, that I simply can’t understand why so many people are still expressing doubt about whether Purism will produce a working Linux smartphone.
I was kind of skeptical two years ago when I first read that Purism had selected GTK/GNOME, because it was so much farther behind Qt/KDE Plasma Mobile and UBports for mobile devices, but I am now seeing Purism turning GTK/GNOME/Phosh into a viable mobile platform. After seeing how libhandy and the GNOME apps will work in the Librem 5, I now believe that Purism made the right decision, because we will eventually have true convergence and be able to run GTK applications on any type of device.
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I prefer KDE/Plasma too and hope that with the coming of the rolling release it will better supported. But maybe it is good to have alternative choices on the librem. That has, as far as I know no Andriod-phone or Iphone.
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PODcast with TODD
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Oh my GOD it’s a POD with TODD
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anybody who has read through your more LENGTHY posts will find little here but AV is easier to follow for some people … but not to sediment any real information …
i encourage everybody who is interested in making an informed opinion about the Purism ethos and their products to read through your posts or at least check out your profile … and decide for themselves … at some point
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Hmm… I’m actually not able to watch this video. Youtube tells me “Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available”.
yes, doesn’t work in epiphany for me (i don’t have gst-h265 codec) but works in ff
Doesn’t work in Firefox for me. I guess I didn’t want to watch it anyway.
You miss nothing worth the audio version 
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The other links don’t work either.
[edit] Ok, just needed to install ffmpeg. All good now.
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