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by rickdeckard 23 days ago
Might be an unpopular opinion, but:

1. They open sourced the entire Software under GPL from the start, and always pushed all their changes to that public github.

2. They supported the first-party firmware for years, including huge rewrites of the interfaces used by applications, etc.

3. They actively involved the community on many topics around the product and were always responsive.

They did their job very well, financed ONLY by one-time sales of hardware. NO subscription or additional licensing fees were ever charged.

There is still alot of potential in the hardware itself (e.g. Bluetooth/BLE, NFC Tag writing,...), and the Community is working on alot of different topics.

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Tl;DR: The Flipper team is free to go and invest resources elsewhere now. Thanks for your support, keep up the great work!