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Cool, it's nice to see FreeRunner legacy is part of the Librem project, even if it doesnt't really look that way from the marketing side. :) As for being hard
by m4rtink 7y ago
Cool, it's nice to see FreeRunner legacy is part of the Librem project, even if it doesnt't really look that way from the marketing side. :)
As for being hard and needing multiple revisions to catch critical bugs - definitely agrew with that as well, even major manufacturers are no immune to hardware issues - Sailfish OS hit on Xperia X and likely 10 as well an issue with the proximity sensor becomming unreliable if turned on for too long. While it could still be a driver issue, given that official Android firmware has the same issues it looks more like a hardware problem Sony failed to catch.
Still, even if all the current issues woth the Librem 5 can be fixed in the final revisions, we are still hitting on marketing issues in how Purism "sold" the initial batches - eq. I don't think the expectations have ever been set as getting an expensive hand warmer, rather having just a minor issues here and there and possibly a less nice chassis.
In my opinion, these hardware revisions simply should not have been released to paying customers even if it would mean another delay.
- seba_dos1 7y agoTo be honest, I think the only people who had incorrect assumptions about those early batches were people who didn't actually get one. We made sure to make it clear what those batches are and gave people multiple chances to change their decision and wait for Evergreen instead - and some people who initially opted for early batches actually used that chance, in fact. Nobody got their Birch or Chestnut against their clear will.