[georgeoliver]

The Pinephone is only usable because multiple communities of volunteers have created software for it. Pine64 encouraged this effort with the first wave of phone releases as "community editions". Now it appears that they are abandoning this effort in favor of a distribution, Manjaro, which has not been putting in as much effort on writing software as the other distros; Manjaro even seems to be mismanaging their release of software by prioritizing updates over stability.

One could argue that multiple communities of volunteers is not an efficient way to run a hardware and software project, but I think that overlooks some key aspects of how volunteering works.