PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

Pine has an attention problem, they produce a lot of different things but the ones that people really wanted like the PinePhone Pro just were never there, with they'd have just doubled down on something and made that REALLY good first.

I preordered the Pinebook, it was never really awesome but it was neat, I accidentally broke the screen and was never able to get a replacement (at least from the store - they were always sold out.) Turned into ewaste.

PinePhone Pro wasn't too good either, I really tried but had lots of flaky issues with basic phone functionality, eventually gave it away to a friend. It's collecting dust for sure and will eventually be more ewaste.

Pine’s approach has always felt like they wanted to make the hardware and then hope that the community would sort out of the software for it.

There isn’t a lot of motivation for the community to sort out the software for them when the products aren’t attractive enough to build a community around.

I wish they would narrow their focus, shift some resources into software development, and produce at least one very good product. As it stands, the Pine brand has become associated with buyer beware.

As someone who doesn't run Linux on any of my Pine64 systems, that suits me fine.

To be fair to them, they at least tell you that software support is largely community provided. However, you probably won't know how that is in practice until you experience it once or twice.

What do you run?

That is fair, they do a good job of warning you up front about it IMHO.