03-18-2021, 10:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-18-2021, 10:25 PM by neil_swann80.)
(03-18-2021, 04:18 PM)tknvkng Wrote: Greetings to you.
I want to write here my thoughts on the topic of your product. I mean a smartphone.
I think that your decision to release a smartphone completely on your own is a rather bold decision in the modern conditions of the capitalist market. I mean Samsung and Apple. They invest tens of billions of US dollars in their production every year. This allows them to make smartphones that are pleasant to hold in their hands.
You cannot compete with them at the device level. This is not an insult, but an objective fact. Therefore, I suggest you choose a different path of your development. You can use well-known and popular smartphone models as blanks. For example, recently released a good smartphone Samsung A52. Its price is not high, and there are already videos on YouTube showing how easy it is to assemble or disassemble. You can install pure Linux on these smartphones, and it will be a really successful business model for many years to come.
For example, you offer a list of smartphones that you can install Linux on on your website. A person chooses a smartphone that he likes and places an order with prepayment. You purchase such a smartphone, perform all the work related to the installation and configuration of Linux on it. And then you ship the finished product to the customer.
I think that making smartphones on your own, these days, is too expensive and not necessary at all.
You should focus on trading off-the-shelf Linux devices, and testing the devices in your labs. It will bring you respect among the high-tech professionals, and popularity in the market among buyers.
P.S.
I am not an employee of any organization or brand. I'm a regular customer. It's my personal opinion.
Pine64 specializes in producing hardware, not software, so your argument makes little sense. There are already plenty of developers producing Linux distros for existing smartphones; check out the UBPorts project for example.
Clearly there is a market for people that want greater control and transparency over the hardware in the device they carry everywhere with them. The PinePhone seems to be quickly out of stock with every manufacture run which demonstrates the validity and business case for this project. Anyone with even vague concerns about privacy can see the value in products like the PinePhone and Librem 5; when it comes to security and privacy you have to begin at the hardware level.
What is Pine64? - "The PINE64 community is large, vibrant and diverse. Independent and partner-project developers, hackers and hardware enthusiasts, privacy advocates and FOSS geeks - you name it, we’ve got 'em all. They all contribute to the project thereby shaping it and determining its course."
I for one love that we're seeing (and participating in) a very healthy change to the direction of the smartphone ecosystem.
