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The problem is that the bar for "commercial failure" is too low. I not only would pay more for a qwerty device but I have multiple times and I've delayed purchases of a device when no qwerty option was available. And I know there are thousands of people like me.

But there aren't hundreds of millions of people like me. And the bar for "success" is selling that many units so it gets considered a "failure"

>>singpo+(OP)
Well if company can't profit selling such device in small quantity it is commercial failure. There is not much qualification to it beyond that.

The bar appears too low to prospective customer because they lose nothing if they try this product but ultimately decide to not buy but for business it is clear loss.

This is like those mythical users who'd buy Macs once its fully hackable and officially support linux. Apple thinks it is just better to not serve those buyers.

>>geodel+q3
Sure "can't profit" would be a sensible bar. But in practise the bar used is much, much higher that's my point