[hammyhavoc]

Your $5 bargain bin webcam doesn't work without the computer and the software that runs on it though. The PinePhone isn't the problem, the problem is the lack of software. It is ridiculous to compare the two things.

[Aeolun]

The $5 bargain bin webcam comes with software.

I’d expect my PinePhone to come with software too. I mean, I guess it did, I think I just expected more from the open source community than from the nameless fly-by-night vendor.

[hammyhavoc]

Are you sure it does and isn't just the bog-standard generic driver for your OS? Because likewise, you provided the computer, OS and everything else for it to work with.

[noasaservice]

Or, Pine should sponsor a kernel dev or 2 for mainlining hardware that pertains to them (and helps the community as a whole).

Software takes time. But their plan is "cobble shit together in an untested and unmaintained state and YOLO".

[seba_dos1]

Webcams work in a completely different way than phone cameras. There's no point in comparing them at all.