08-20-2022, 02:28 AM
(08-18-2022, 08:06 PM)orbital Wrote: ... But one hears horror stories about the Pinephone. Perhaps the problem is that they released it in such an unfinished state, most of the personal anecdotes are horror stories and some of those are quite recent. ...
People like to create drama sometimes. The state of affairs will be in expected possibilities for anyone having any experience with open source projects run partially (or fully) by volunteers. And even for those having not so stellar experience with corporate software.
Things are what they are. Nothing is hidden. If you want to support the effort or you want to try if it'll work for you, then no "horror story" should scare you into not trying new things.
And if you need rock-solid experience - by something backed up by waaay more money. An iPhone has Apple and more than a decade development behinds its quality. An Android phone has more than a decade development of software by Google. The Braveheart edition of Pinephone (shipped early 2020) came with a test program out of the factory and I waited more than a year before the phone could support my use case. Then I bought the Beta Edition with some hardware fixes I really needed.