Thank you writing this. Judging on how you defended Cerulean Mobile in Jason Wards latest piece about them, I am not surprised to see your name on the top.
First of, I want you to know, that I have a large amount of respect for someone going so much out of their way to promote this for Cerulean Mobile. It is commendable and truly makes you worthy of your champion title.
Now to your reply.
I am order
#30 and while I did not use the special link, it still had the perk after I signed it - luckily too, otherwise I would have paid 10-20$ more than I had had to
I spread the word using twitter, though I know of no one interesting or someone who could benefit from a tweet like that. Still, I gave it all the chance I could.
Finally my response to everyone not impressed with the device:
It is not about the device. For me it is about doing my best to ensure a future for Windows Phone. And Gregs idea of a company dedicated to the OS with no toes in other waters, as he puts it, is just up my alley.
I could afford it and thusly I helped.
Granted, I did not go spend all my fortune to help Mr. Greg, but $280 for a mere promise is what I would consider a fair amount of support.
Of course it helped a lot that I would actually get a device, if this succeeded, but I do not see this as a viable end. Not with only 2% completed at the moment of writing this. This will fail with 70% accuracy. I simply take peace in knowing I did my part, when the time came to prove my loyalty to this OEM as a fan of Windows Phones.
My question to you is this: What do you think Greg will do next, when this fails?