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Thank you. That was exactly my point - they camped in a niche they had no intent to do properly. Worse yet, they screamed at users to lean on the community (re
by mystraline 1y ago
Thank you. That was exactly my point - they camped in a niche they had no intent to do properly.
Worse yet, they screamed at users to lean on the community (read: unpaid FLOSS as support). They refused to provide even baseband images to do the things they were selling, like Pinephone Pro as as, you know, a phone.
At one point, I thought they were just an upstart trying to get off the ground. But in reality, its a complete grift that ends up taking community resources and nothing to show for it.
- exe34 1y agoI have their pinenote - as far as I can tell, the community has done a great job on the Linux image, but I ended up sticking with the android fw as I can't be bothered to reflash the Linux partition now in case I brick it. I think it can be done this way, with the manufacturer taking care of hardware and the community taking care of software - but they should at least fund one or two people and some projects directly to make it work. the pinenote is a great little ereader with the android fw.