Comments on: Former Apple engineers at OQO call it quits http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/05/22/former-apple-engineers-at-oqo-call-it-quits/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Mad Hatter http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/05/22/former-apple-engineers-at-oqo-call-it-quits/comment-page-1/#comment-18851 The Mad Hatter Sat, 30 May 2009 00:05:30 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3532#comment-18851 The problem isn't that people won't buy "Cool Thing" that small, it's that they don't think that cool things are worth the price that OQO was charging. I looked at their stuff. Yeah, it was neat. It was also over priced for what it did. It's too bad to see the company go down, they had some good ideas, but if you can't deliver the product at a saleable price, well <b>think of it as Evolution in Action.</b> The problem isn’t that people won’t buy “Cool Thing” that small, it’s that they don’t think that cool things are worth the price that OQO was charging. I looked at their stuff. Yeah, it was neat. It was also over priced for what it did.

It’s too bad to see the company go down, they had some good ideas, but if you can’t deliver the product at a saleable price, well think of it as Evolution in Action.

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