Dean Collins wrote: > 1/ R&D costs v's number of units manafactured per annum. > The only business phone I ever contributed to had a run rate of about 500K/annum and a production life of multiple years (not sure how many it lasted for). I put some (at the time) exotic DSP into a high end product, so I assume the run of the mill business phones are made in much larger numbers. Consumer makers would consider that pretty good volume for a single design.
What you have to consider when comparing business phones to consumer products is the huge number of people making consumer audio, and the small number making business phones (pretty much the PBX makers, and few others). > 2/ Retail pricing the markets will still purchase at. > IP phones aren't currently a runaway success outside the business world, so they appear to be rather more expensive than the mass market will bear. Steve _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
