Comment by macspoofing
6 years ago
>When I saw the price I assumed they were trying to position a premium product.
They are. They are building a product that let's you do anything you want on the device.
Honestly, the phone should be priced at a premium level because it will appeal to a demographic that will pay more for a phone that lets them break free from the closed ecosystems of Android/Apple. It also gives them extra cash to re-invest in the company and doesn't require them scaling their manufacturing just yet.
What can you do with the Librem that you can't with a Moto G?
Run a modern mainline kernel (and future mainline kernels) without losing compatibility with the drivers for most of the hardware.
At least at the moment Librem5 still requires non-upstreamed drivers: "The kernel will be the 5.3 mainline kernel with some additional drivers" [0]
They do at least appear to be actively developing those drivers publicly for eventual submission upstream, though: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/activity
[0] https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Software_Reference.html
Ok, but what does that let you do that you couldn't otherwise? Nobody buys a phone for the operating system, it's for the hardware and the software that runs on top of the OS.
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> They are. They are building a product that let's you do anything you want on the device.
Completely orthogonal to “premium”
I mean it is essentially a premium feature in the current market of cheap locked down shit.
Isn't the most expensive phone you can buy also the most locked down phone you can buy, the iPhone 11?
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