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Purism found a way to make its Linux phone even more expensive: meet the $2,199 Liberty Phone - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

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[–] 20gramsWrench 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

now, are they being greedy fucks, or is the price difference with other brands indicative of how much money other manufacturers make on data-mining you ?

[–] pinchcramp 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I suppose they have to cover their research and development with a much, much, much smaller customer base than any regular phone manufacturer (and Android manufacturers can use the work of Google and others in the Android community instead of having to do all the work themselves).

Also with their previous generation, the US manufactured phone is $700 more expensive than the one produced assembled overseas ($1999 v $1299). So the US manufacturing seems to be pretty expensive as well.

Then again, the Pine Phone manages to be much cheaper. So maybe my speculation is way off the mark and the answer is "greedy ducks" 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think it's more just them learning that they cannot have mass production (seeing how they still have pre-order Librem 5's to ship) so they purposefully go for an overpriced model to just have a smaller number of orders.