Hi Frank.
I am another stranded customer of the Olive ONE. Rune looks like a great solution for the ONE.
1) Kidahl talked about the amount of units out there; we don't know any numbers for sure, however there were 1,414 backers on Indiegogo. I guess in average every backer bought one unit ($552,242 raised / 1,414 backers = $390 ≈ unit price). Aditionally there were units sold via Amazon and myoliveone.com
2)
hondagx35 wrote:The latest software update is SW: 1.0.31 Build 67 Date: 2016-05-11.
For me this looks like they are still alive and develop new features.
What are the problems? I couldn't find any negative statements on the net.
Olive Inc. slowly reduced its efforts in development of the Olive ONE OS. After the release of the ONE tickets on Zendesk were answered within hours by several individuals, recently answers took weeks and came just by one person usually stating he/she put it on a list for future releases. These releases were scheduled on a roadmap pointing to version 1.0.36. As you found out, .31 was released in 2016, however was scheduled for Aug, 2015. You see the problem.
In the aftermath of SW release .36 several discussions on Zendesk started without any reaction of Olive. We also systematically tried to contact the company via e-mail and Zendest tickets – no reaction. The website
http://www.olive.us was the company website, which was down for a couple of days and now is forwarded to the product website of the Olive ONE. I guess just to turn the remaining units into money. The CEO of Olive, Robert Bergmann, moved on to a new company based in Munich that works in the IoT business. Several others left the company as to see in their records on LinkedIn etc. So for me it seems the investors and the management pulled the plug with a final statement that is SW release .31
3)
hondagx35 wrote:Please point me to such a dialog, because i couldn't find anything following the link you posted.
There are/were several eBay auctions for the ONE (e.g.,
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/162078287015) and as mentioned by Kidahl in the community forums on Zendesk. You must be registered for the Olive community to see the forums, so I cannot point you there directly.
- Olive ONE for sale
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4) Here are some images of the ONE that might be helpful:
- Inside I
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- Inside II
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I hope I could help a bit…
Max