OQB: @weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
Six years ago the entire Linux enthusiast space was super excited for the PinePhone, then everything fell apart. What went wrong? Was PINE64’s favoritism towards Manjaro the sole issue or were there other problems?
I recommend this blog post to get a small piece of the picture : https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/
Side note : in my opinion the pinephone was always a developer platform and could have succeeded with it’s low specs. It failed because of pine64 lack of collaboration with the community that were building the software.
Software. It’s a phone that can’t make phone calls, with a camera that can’t take pictures. It doesn’t matter if some coding genius manages to port Crysis to it, if the phone can’t phone, it’s DOA.
@weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
I’d bet it was the hardware specs, that’s what it was for me, I took one look at the specs and immediately moved on. Clearly, others were thinking the same.
I can deal with immature buggy software, software can always be freely updated. But subpar, underspecced hardware can only be fixed with buying more or different hardware
No linux phone will succeed for as long as they keep making them with shit specs