DM42 News

[Thomas Okken]

(04-07-2017 10:41 AM)bhtooefr Wrote:  The misprint sucks for sure, but there's an interesting tidbit of info in there.

Quote:So they started production of the first 1000 pieces.

The first 1000 pieces? I was expecting the market to be somewhere around 500 units total in the lifetime of the product, clearly I've underestimated it. And, the first run being 1000 units is promising for pricing, too - it means that economies of scale really start kicking in.

According to what Google and Apple are telling me, there are roughly 50,000 people using Free42 on a regular basis (as in: at least once during the last 30 days). That's about twice the number of users I deduced from the download counts in the early days (2004-2006), so this is pretty steady and rising. If only one out of every 20 of those people wants to buy a DM42, they're already looking at sales in the thousands.

Now I'm starting to wonder: how many HP-42S did HP sell? Surely more than a mere few tens of thousands, but how many more? Does anyone know?