[brutusborn]

Possibly the general audience isn't interested in the benefits of an open phone. I remember a HN comment where a phone manufacturer said making relationships with suppliers was almost impossible without a decent sized market segment.

[jamil7]

Maybe with the right positioning and marketing, e.g. playing the privacy or sustainability (repairability) angle, I could see more people being interested. Anecdotally, I've seen the things like the Fairphone have reasonable interest and adoption from non-tech friends and acquaintances.

[prox]

So catch-22. No market, no manufacturing, and no manufacturing because no market. Ouch.

[linmob]

That's precisely why the PinePhone matters. One might criticize PINE64's approach of "throwing hardware over the wall and hoping that the community magically comes together and makes the software side work", but without PINE64 the situation would be even worse.

[trelane]

Is also true of computers generally. If you want a computer that really supports Linux (or whatever OS you want), you have to support the vendors that are doing the work.