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It's all in the definition of "succeed". Can they establish a strong enough market position to participate in the game of skimming 30% off the price all app sa
by ptx 7y ago
It's all in the definition of "succeed".
Can they establish a strong enough market position to participate in the game of skimming 30% off the price all app sales for yet another walled-garden platform? Definitely not, but that's not the goal.
Can they provide a useful system for technical users, like KDE and Linux on the desktop? Seems like they have a good shot at it.
- beatgammit 7y agoI am exactly the target market for this. I don't use many apps, and my most used apps are either usable in the browser or easy to implement myself. I don't need much from my phone, just calls, texts, a browser, a PDF viewer, navigation, SSH, and decent battery life. Bonus points for apps like Signal and Bitwarden, both of which are open source. If I can get those features from a PinePhone, I'll ditch Android. And it seems like I will, since I've seen demos of calls, the browser, and a terminal app, and assurance that battery life on standby is ~12 hours with active time around 3-5 hours. I'm sure the rest of my requirements will be in a mostly useable state in the next few months (I saw a picture of evince on Phosh). PinePhone and Librem 5 aren't targeting mainstream users, they're targeting a niche group that needs or wants a smartphone and is willing to put up with a lot of rough edges to not be spied on. And $150 is a very compelling price point for that.