[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.