Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100?
So I'm not really sure what the intention behind the question of this thread subject is. It's sold nearly for free and it's the same even with 100$ increase If you consider what it takes to develop something like this, improve it (mb revisions) and take care of the whole infrastructure, surrounding the end-to-end process, it just makes sense.
We're part of something big here, if the project succeeds, and we should be really happy about the fact how affordable it is.
IMHO if you're searching for a cheap phone, get some generic android one, but if you're interested in how pinephone can change the whole situation in smartphone world, you don't care about the price that much (at least in this phase), just look at the librem example - it just proves that pine64 did go in right direction (by choosing different price strategy for phone/OS in development stage).
At least I can't imagine paying that amout of money for librem (at its current state), but it just doesn't mean that anything else should be just for free.
We're part of something big here, if the project succeeds, and we should be really happy about the fact how affordable it is.
IMHO if you're searching for a cheap phone, get some generic android one, but if you're interested in how pinephone can change the whole situation in smartphone world, you don't care about the price that much (at least in this phase), just look at the librem example - it just proves that pine64 did go in right direction (by choosing different price strategy for phone/OS in development stage).
At least I can't imagine paying that amout of money for librem (at its current state), but it just doesn't mean that anything else should be just for free.