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I heard this is a sort of hail-mary for the company's existence, that they need recurring revenue and need it badly. Their products haven't been selling well a
by newnewpdro 7y ago
I heard this is a sort of hail-mary for the company's existence, that they need recurring revenue and need it badly.
Their products haven't been selling well and if you look at the last few puri.sm updates posted on HN they didn't even attract 10 comments if any at all.
The last macbook update thread was past 1000 comments when I read it.
If the HN crowd isn't interested in a privacy-oriented FSF-friendly computing devices, who is?
- Gys 7y agoMaybe because the Mac platform (or Windows and Android) are platforms that have proven a developer can make money there.
- kgwxd 7y agoI think people here are interested in the Librem 5. Laptops are already easy enough to make your own with just a few compromises, and I don't think many people would choose PureOS over other Linux distros. But the phone space has 3 choices iOS, Google Android and open Android (e.g. LineageOS). The open Android options are forced to run on fairly locked down hardware made by companies that have no interest in open sourcing anything and don't want any hardware buttons, no matter how useful they might be. There's a desperate need for a mobile device made for general purpose computing.