Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100?
12-01-2020, 07:05 PM
I have long thought that PINE64 needs to charge more for the PinePhone, in order to be able to pay some developers to work on the hard problems like firmware development. Plus, I think that PINE64 needs to be able to provide a normal 1 year warranty and provide decent customer service if it wants to reach a wider range of customers.
What I would like to see is PINE64 not only working on firmware that helps all the distros, but PINE64 being able to pay for software development that helps a lot of distros. Paying developers to improve Crust and wakeup speed for phone calls, and work on a camera app would improve the PinePhone significantly.
If order for mobile Linux to reach the mainstream, it is going to need some paid software developers working on it. I pre-ordered the Librem 5 precisely because I thought Purism's software dev work was important to support, and I think that many backers of the PinePhone will come to a similar conclusion if they can see the extra money in the price hike being used to pay for necessary dev work that helps many distros.
What I would like to see is PINE64 not only working on firmware that helps all the distros, but PINE64 being able to pay for software development that helps a lot of distros. Paying developers to improve Crust and wakeup speed for phone calls, and work on a camera app would improve the PinePhone significantly.
If order for mobile Linux to reach the mainstream, it is going to need some paid software developers working on it. I pre-ordered the Librem 5 precisely because I thought Purism's software dev work was important to support, and I think that many backers of the PinePhone will come to a similar conclusion if they can see the extra money in the price hike being used to pay for necessary dev work that helps many distros.