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I think if they can nail the low-end or mid-end phone, and get enough volume out there to make an ecosystem possible, ramping up to high-end phones is the easy

I think if they can nail the low-end or mid-end phone, and get enough volume out there to make an ecosystem possible, ramping up to high-end phones is the easy part. It's not like the factories manufacturing these phones don't know how to make high-end phones. But the problem with $800 phones is people can't afford to buy them unless they're daily driver ready. At $150, you can buy it as a testing phone/a spare phone, and start building apps for it. Windows Mobile was murdered first and foremost by the lack of wider support and a larger app ecosystem. Getting as many phones out there as possible is the key to avoiding this with Linux phones.

29083011397778 5y ago
This is why we're really very lucky, IMO: We have two companies doing both, right now. We have an $800 device for the "high" end, and a cheaper device to get the word out. The timing seems better than if it had been one or the other.
leshokunin 5y ago
I’m not convinced that low cost devices are the way to go. Android has it covered. Tizen tried and failed. If Linux can be a viable system that most of the Chinese and Korean manufacturers can adopt and push, I would agree. But I don’t see how that would shape up in practice.