Remember Canonical's crowdfunding campaign for a @ubuntu phone that raised $12 million but failed?
Wouldn't it be nice to repeat this and crowdfund for a @gnome phone?
Would you buy such a phone?
#Gnome #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxPhone #LinuxMobile
@okennedy @user8e8f87c @ubuntu @gnome
One thing that they could attempt to offer would be hardware that is more affordable than the Librem but functions better than the pinephone.
@jlcrawf @user8e8f87c @ubuntu @gnome
Purism is (rightly, imo) targeting a niche market for now.
Achieving the volume required for a lower-price point takes time and effort. They've made huge strides on the hardware driver and Phosh fronts; the phone is a solid phone. What remains is the software ecosystem; No "Get me from Flathub" 's yet :)... but they're investing in tackling that too.
As the software gets more accessible and more people start buying, I would expect the price to drop. 2/2
@jlcrawf @user8e8f87c @ubuntu @gnome That would be nice... but challenging if they *also* want to support software development. I'd be surprised if the parts cost for the Librem5 was significantly greater than the PinePhonePro. The cost difference pays for a team of developers to do the thankless work of power tuning, to work around the sorry state of embedded hardware atm, to upstream kernel patches, etc...
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