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PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

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172 points fsflover | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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ethagnawl ◴[28 Aug 25 16:25 UTC] No.45054074[source]▶
This is a bummer. If there was ever a time this sort of device was needed, it's now / in the near future when Google (probably) starts requiring all Android apps to be signed by approved developers and further locks down the Android platform.

I kind of regret not buying one of these instead of a Pixel 7 but, unfortunately, I'm pretty tethered to the Android ecosystem at the moment.

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nrdgrrrl ◴[28 Aug 25 19:07 UTC] No.45055813[source]▶
You say that, but they're discontinuing it because they didn't sell enough of them. It may be the device we need, but it's not the device we're buying.
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dotancohen ◴[28 Aug 25 19:17 UTC] No.45055922[source]▶
It's that "we" are too small a market. And I'm not convinced that most of us actually buy these niche devices, even though we say we will.
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1. kristopolous ◴[28 Aug 25 20:33 UTC] No.45056733[source]▶
nah it's that the work delta is too great.

So if you come out with a typical android phone, you have to do X amount of work yourself and some Y amount you can just buy.

If you are doing something like a PinePhone, there's a multiplier on the X of work you have to do yourself ... a significant multiplier and that's the problem.

That's why if you have a something like a Pine phone that has the sales of say something like this: https://www.bluproducts.com/android-phones/ you're going to bleed money - you won't survive - it's too much of a lift.

That's also why almost all phones (that are financially viable) look and feel almost the same.