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by MacsHeadroom 2042 days ago
They did ship and have been shipping batches. This is the mass production run, not the early adopter dev phones you can find on eBay.
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You could address the substance of my comment by providing evidence. I'm trying to be polite about it, but the astroturfing is obvious.
The author of that forum post is unwilling to publish video of the device.
As someone who did an AMA for my Birch device, that is frankly an incredibly selfish attitude. I got people who thought I was some sort of employee of Purism just because I was willing to answer questions and did so nicely, and then people got upset because I didn't post things they wanted (and spread the exact sort of non-sense you are spreading now).

Publishing any sort of video takes a non-trivial amount of time, especially when one has never even attempted to try doing so before. The owner of that device isn't being paid to put that up there. I really don't blame the owner one bit for not wanting to do that, especially when I see attitudes like this. I also don't blame others for NOT wanting to do forums posts like that, when there are attitudes like this.

I know you wanted to make an important point of proof, but let's face it: astroturfing is a horrible word and it should be extinguished and substituted for something that doesn't make the reader feel like they are in orbit in a space suit surrounded by giant glazed donuts.
They infamously claimed to ship the first batch which then proved to be a lie.

This is a "mass production run", but basic things like camera are not working.