Market Forces and Open Hardware
03-07-2021, 04:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-07-2021, 04:50 AM by globaltree.
Edit Reason: disn't want to sound stupid, so I fixed somthing
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I want to do everything I can with hardware that is acquirable to protect the community's privacy as best as I can keep up with: and risc-v cpus are not vulnerable to meltdown or spectre, which received enough media attention that some of our parents are aware of these vulnerabilities. I've read that the linux kernel mitigations are inadequate. I think the parents would feel more assured using and supporting open hardware on cpus that weren't susceptible to these manufacture oversights, or whatever they were that caused the vulnerabilities; it's not like cpu manufacturers earned the public's trust by disclosing the exploits: they had to be warned by independent researchers, making the public wonder if they knew they were there the entire time.
So 20% increase was last year -- the demand for open hardware is growing exponentially. Unless pine64 was designed for scalability, so it can grow exponentially too, there's no way it can keep up with the demand for open hardware. That's why I think it should raise its prices. Low Supply High Demand = supplier raises price.
It's common sense that simpler equations are easier to work with: if Risc-V ISA is is a simpler equation, then there's less complexity for exploits to hide in. Risc-v sneak previews are in june, and mass production in september .
I had some neo freerunners before android, and was sickened to see how money backed android left neomoko in the dust... and now I'm excited about pinephones and hope history doesn't repeat itself.
An automatic email response when someone sends an email to sales@pine64.com, and mailing list to notify interested parties when devices are back in stock -- together that solution is kinder than taking the phone off the hook. (I've taken my phone off its hook plenty though, and understand: it's pressure; stress; and I've got a deadline to meet, and don't need the phone distracting me from my work...) And I like the work coming from pine64: I have pinebook pro and pinephone usbports--pine64 stepped up to the plate to try and fill this demand for open hardware...
But the market will follow availability. Some company will poor money into open hardware phone and get it into high production; their new phone will get the market share, because it could keep up with the exponential demand; and then pinephones can join the museum alongside the freerunners. I hope that doesn't happen.
So 20% increase was last year -- the demand for open hardware is growing exponentially. Unless pine64 was designed for scalability, so it can grow exponentially too, there's no way it can keep up with the demand for open hardware. That's why I think it should raise its prices. Low Supply High Demand = supplier raises price.
It's common sense that simpler equations are easier to work with: if Risc-V ISA is is a simpler equation, then there's less complexity for exploits to hide in. Risc-v sneak previews are in june, and mass production in september .
I had some neo freerunners before android, and was sickened to see how money backed android left neomoko in the dust... and now I'm excited about pinephones and hope history doesn't repeat itself.
An automatic email response when someone sends an email to sales@pine64.com, and mailing list to notify interested parties when devices are back in stock -- together that solution is kinder than taking the phone off the hook. (I've taken my phone off its hook plenty though, and understand: it's pressure; stress; and I've got a deadline to meet, and don't need the phone distracting me from my work...) And I like the work coming from pine64: I have pinebook pro and pinephone usbports--pine64 stepped up to the plate to try and fill this demand for open hardware...
But the market will follow availability. Some company will poor money into open hardware phone and get it into high production; their new phone will get the market share, because it could keep up with the exponential demand; and then pinephones can join the museum alongside the freerunners. I hope that doesn't happen.
