[asterisk-users] MagicJack quality

[Steve Underwood]

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