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Maybe it's a statement about how difficult it is to be profitable in the industry, and how much support/development effort it takes to keep up. If this is true
by supernova87a 6y ago
Maybe it's a statement about how difficult it is to be profitable in the industry, and how much support/development effort it takes to keep up.
If this is true, I might suggest that people who wonder "can't we just make our own open source phone" inject some realism into their estimates about how much work is needed to make an alternative that people actually want to use.
- justicezyx 6y ago> can't we just make our own open source phone This seems have nothing to do with LG's move. On the contrary, what drives LG to leave smart phone also enables the open source smartphone: the lowering of manufacturing puts more emphasis on software reconfigurability to the targeted audience of open source smartphone. LG cannot sustain because they don't have a strong software product to make their smartphone profitable. And open source smartphone is about open source anyway. It should not be compared to mass market products anyway.