Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100?
My take on this subject:
Pine64 is giving people a hint, that the prices of the device will slightly increase in the near future.
I believe, that since the last few positive updates on a few popular linux distros for the PinePhone (Manjaro is a good example), which made the device to be pretty close to be daily-driver worthy, Pine64 do not want to only "break even" anymore, they want to make a few dollars profit, probably to enable them to invest in hardware and design improvements for the PinePhone. IMHO as long as the price increase is small and serves a good purpose, it shouldn't be an issue, only if there was a sharp and un-explainable price increase, that is when I would say something is off or does no longer aligns with the values this project stands for from the begining.
my 2 cents
Pine64 is giving people a hint, that the prices of the device will slightly increase in the near future.
I believe, that since the last few positive updates on a few popular linux distros for the PinePhone (Manjaro is a good example), which made the device to be pretty close to be daily-driver worthy, Pine64 do not want to only "break even" anymore, they want to make a few dollars profit, probably to enable them to invest in hardware and design improvements for the PinePhone. IMHO as long as the price increase is small and serves a good purpose, it shouldn't be an issue, only if there was a sharp and un-explainable price increase, that is when I would say something is off or does no longer aligns with the values this project stands for from the begining.
my 2 cents