I would love a Linux phone but so far graphene OS is the way.

I get it that they need to find a way to fund their R&D team.

I get that there is also some people willing to pay top-dollar for some specific features which can not be had on commodity phones Linux-based, fully assembled in the US, etc. Which is going to be impossible to fulfill at scale.

What I don’t get is: why can’t they offer something that makes this explicit? I for one have no interest in a $2k phone, but I would gladly give them $50 per month and in exchange I’d get the right to participate in some periodic (monthly, quarterly, yearly?) dutch-style auction when they had a new update to their phone. Perhaps a percentage of the money that I had given could be used to pay for the device, etc.

Lmao. At this point buy any android phone and just put a custom ROM on it.

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Bummer, I thought people on Lemmy might be excited. I agree its pricey but voting with your wallet isn’t always cheap. (Typed from my Librem 5 :))

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 ?

This is a tragedy.