for some reason, I was thinking about Osmose yesterday…
I suspect, things will not have moved on too much, if there had been a milestone reached (like production starting) , they’d send a newsletter immediately !
I reckon we’ll hear something along the lines of…
“dry run units arrived and are being tested, once we are happy production can start”
but we are also now into the Chinese new year, which means a couple of weeks of not a lot.
I’d not be surprised if manufacturing is scheduled to start at beginning of March…then it’ll be 4-6 weeks from there for first units.
this is assuming, that all required components were reserved successfully , otherwise that could throw a huge spanner into the works!
I think we will start hearing news pretty regularly when there is something ‘positive’ to say.
Id expect following milestones (pretty quickly after one another)
- production beginning
- first units on boat from china
- first customers being sent invoice for remaining amount.
- first units shipping to customes
some where in there, we’ll also no doubt seeing some ‘artists’ being sent some dry-run/pre-production units… to start building the hype. (probably when production starts, so the ball is rolling)
really the monthly newsletters are a (welcome) stop gap, to just tell us, stuff is happening behind the scenes… and to hold on tight.
I remember the whole Roli Lumi fiasco, and this is pretty much what happened… semi-regular updates without any real commitment… but once they actually started production, suddenly they became very communicative.
I don’t really blame them… really all we want to hear is ‘we are shipping’
I’ll be pleasantly surprised if they start shipping by April, but even then I fear/suspect the majority of us will have to still wait quite a while… as they ‘ramp up’ production, and overcome any ‘niggles’ they have along the way.
but hey ho, we have waited this long… perhaps we’ll be playing the Osmose in the summer sun… and my piano lessons are going well… so I might even be ‘deserving’ of it by then