I really don't think anyone with any knowledge would buy this purely on the mining factor, and I don't think that's what they are pushing for.
I understand, but they are extremely vague as to what makes this device unique vs any other marketplace where one can sell their goods and services for bitcoin with their regular computer.
The only thing that would make sense is if these devices had some unique advantage where they were given privy to directly sell excess bandwidth to Qualcomm devices.
then why add mining chip that would just be a pure loss?
The only purpose of the mining chip is to facilitate non-bitcoin users the ability to use the bitcoin blockchain without buying bitcoin. Unfortunately this device isn't marketed for this demo so is very puzzling indeed.
Perhaps they intended to create routers and utilities but after testing couldn't pull off their vision so had to release something and all that VC money allowed them to grab 3-4 % of the worldwide hashrate so have settled on the business model of mining . This would truly be disappointing.
