[ocdtrekkie]

I think if they can nail the low-end or mid-end phone, and get enough volume out there to make an ecosystem possible, ramping up to high-end phones is the easy part. It's not like the factories manufacturing these phones don't know how to make high-end phones.

But the problem with $800 phones is people can't afford to buy them unless they're daily driver ready. At $150, you can buy it as a testing phone/a spare phone, and start building apps for it.

Windows Mobile was murdered first and foremost by the lack of wider support and a larger app ecosystem. Getting as many phones out there as possible is the key to avoiding this with Linux phones.

[29083011397778]

This is why we're really very lucky, IMO: We have two companies doing both, right now. We have an $800 device for the "high" end, and a cheaper device to get the word out. The timing seems better than if it had been one or the other.

[tetrisgm]

I’m not convinced that low cost devices are the way to go. Android has it covered. Tizen tried and failed. If Linux can be a viable system that most of the Chinese and Korean manufacturers can adopt and push, I would agree. But I don’t see how that would shape up in practice.