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 The goal of the loan program is to give access to a Firefox OS device to more developers. We got many requests in the Phones for Apps program, and unfortunately, we cannot give a device to all developers. Having a real device can be a good motivation for some developers to develop on the platform. We also have a good simulator, but there is nothing as good as testing your application with a real device. By loaning devices to developers, it will give us the opportunity to get more quality application, and saving on cost (shipping vs buying new devices).
+As an example, with the Phones for Apps we got 10 000 applications, and we may have given 200 phones. If each developer creates one application, we are ''potentially'' missing 9800 applications (we know that some developers don't need a real device to publish their application). If we dedicate only 20 phones for the program, with an estimate use time of 4 weeks per phone (2 weeks for the developers, 1 week shipping in/out & 1 week of administrative/delay), in one year, we'll have a potential of 260 more applications (52 weeks / 4 weeks * 20 devices), that mean an average of 13 applications per phones.
 == Rules of the program ==