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This board has a real hate-boner for the PinePhone for some reason. Any phone that isn't 100% as capable as a flagship iOS or Android gets defined as "not ready
by Arnavion 5y ago
This board has a real hate-boner for the PinePhone for some reason. Any phone that isn't 100% as capable as a flagship iOS or Android gets defined as "not ready to be a daily driver", because people think their definition of "daily driver" is some universal constant that everyone abides by. The rest of us who happily use it as a daily driver apparently don't exist in their worldview.
Already in this subthread there's "We're not there yet", "I couldn't conscientiously hand it to a non-techy", "It's nowhere near ready to be used as a phone outside of tinkering", "something that falls apart in their hands like wet sawdust", ...
- goodpoint 5y agoI wonder if it's a sign of the HN crowd moving from startups to FAANGs. So much for the "hacker" news...
- dang 5y ago> This board has a real hate-boner for the PinePhone for some reason What a strange thing to say. It's hugely popular on HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=pinephone%20comments%3E3&sort=byDate&type=story&storyText=none https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=pinephone&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- Arnavion 5y agoThat doesn't change what I said.