•• THE FUTURE OF RED ONE? ••

[Duncan Thompson]

I wouldn't be surprised if they offered an upgrade to the R1 ("we will support it like a Queen" - Jim Jannard, recently) filling the Epic-S gap. If it's possible for the guts of an R1 to process a Dragon sensor's output.
Imagine an R1 with better performance than an Alexa: The Red One LXR!
If 10,000 R1 owners upgraded to R1 LXR (sorry) at say $8,000 a pop, that's $80,000,000.
Makes economic sense, maybe... Hmm. Maybe not, remove parts and labour. At worse that's $20,000,000 profit. Only 50% take up = $10,000,000 profit.
Maybe, maybe not. But imagine the current R1 MX upgraded to R1 LXR and selling for $28,000, undercutting Alexa by $50,000!
Obsolescence obsolete.

Sorry, it's a quiet day, and I'd thought I'd add some mischievous zest to this thread!

 

[Alex Detig]

Me too... ;-)

 

[CocoBermudez]

That would be nice...I would think that when they designed the RED ONE, they looked forward and beyond...hopefully there will be more stuff to come...would not surprise me...especially for all those folks that decided for one reason or another not to go for the EPIC program and are happy with their RED ONE's

 

[Christopher Barrett]

Just look how damn big the R1 is. There's tons of room in there to hold even more awesomeness!

 

[CocoBermudez]

Just look how damn big the R1 is. There's tons of room in there to hold even more awesomeness!

makes me think...what the heck is inside? Is it hollow? Are there any pictures of an opened RED ONE...I can't imagine technology advancing soooo much that everything and MORE that used to be in the RED ONE now fits inside an EPIC...or maybe it does.