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Probably because in the USA people aren't as willing to work for peanuts as people in the PRC?
I believe the USA manufactured version is the “Liberty Phone” starting $2199. The regular Librem appears to be made in China. https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
Why do they keep getting more expensive? $1299??
Sad reflection of the realities of manufacturing, I suspect. They won’t ever achieve the kind of scale you’d need to make it cheaper. IMO it is what it is. Especially when you consider the hardware kill switches etc this is a niche product that the right small audience will pay $1.2k for.
Oh wait, joke's on me. Google already has 100% of my info and I still paid full price for a Pixel.
I guess we're discounting Samsung and their Dex engine, then?
Why do they keep getting more expensive? $1299??
Sad reflection of the realities of manufacturing, I suspect. They won’t ever achieve the kind of scale you’d need to make it cheaper. IMO it is what it is. Especially when you consider the hardware kill switches etc this is a niche product that the right small audience will pay $1.2k for.
> Purism is the first to release a truly convergent operating system, beating Apple, Google, and Microsoft to this goal by years. I guess we're discounting Samsung and their Dex engine, then?
What percentage were cancelled due to the huge delays?
> Purism is the first to release a truly convergent operating system, beating Apple, Google, and Microsoft to this goal by years. I guess we're discounting Samsung and their Dex engine, then?
Why do they keep getting more expensive? $1299??
Probably because in the USA people aren't as willing to work for peanuts as people in the PRC?
Labor is nowhere near the only factor that makes Chinese sources cheaper. It’s the ecosystem. There’s an entire industry that can do every possible thing, and they’re doing it all the time, so they’re flexible and configurable and can quickly spin out a variant on your standard-issue smartphone like it’s nothing.
(Well, assuming Xi’s recent megalomania hasn’t slowly started to destroy all that…)