lot378 Wrote:@zetabeta you and others, it has to be said, are conditioned by common consumerism in to thinking "bigger, faster, more" is always better.
zetabeta Wrote:actually no. i don't think more is better, but it doesn't mean going too low is good either. i have one chinese manufacturer's android phone approximately 300 euros and i think specs are just fine. maybe some lucky day someone has ported postmarketos to it.
zetabeta Wrote:even i think wasting more than 1000 dollars or euros for smartphone start sound like ...wasting money. but still for future if pinephone turns out to be succesful, i think there should be slightly better pinephone approximately 300$. there could be two models and i may end of having both. for 150 dollars is still suprisingly capable. as of now no rush decisions should be made, so let's see first.Well, isn't that actually the definition of consumerism at play there? And I think it's answers how smartphones got in to the mess they are in i.e. "I want feature x, y, z for $amount" and kept creeping upwards every year. May be try to look at it from the Pine64 and community perspective for an idea of what it's really all about.
Verendert Wrote:I´m old enough to remember both the C=64 and the AmigaThe great thing about Vic20, C64, Pet, Amiga, BBC Micro etc (might as well include the original Apple II) they introduced people to computers, programming, hardware teaking and mods. May be they went from there to learn about C and Unix? And regretted seeing the world go down the Windows rabbit hole ...
Personally, the bottom line is I don't see Pine64 getting in to another PinePhone (2, Pro or whatever) for a while because the current one has a lot of mileage to go yet - 2-3 years at least. May be then the SoC world will have shifted - ARM becoming toxic because of Apple and/or NVidia, RISC the new Pine64 go to - who knows?