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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by Fnoord on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:53PM (#30012985)
Pinephone give a month warranty, that's it. Its a dealbreaker for any consumer. Pinephone Pro can get you through the day, but it goes for 400 plus duties, and it also only has a month warranty. Kickstarter, Indiegogo can get away scamming or false advertising.

Instead, look at Framework and Fairphone how a company can release a modular device, for a realistic price.

Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by asojfdowgh on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:50PM (#30014738)
I'm not fussed about the warranty so much as the "updates" period, which, if everything gets upstreamed, might be 10+ years with the pinephone, something that very very few can hold a candle to (afaik fairphone only gets there if you also include 3rd party support)

Framework is, afaik, a bunch of people who have already several long years of wrangling laptop devices and their supply chains, similarly Fairphone is on their 4th iteration, a lot of long years

And more importantly, even with all those years behind their products, I can't buy either of 'em, I however have a pinephone in my hands already

Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by usbqk on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:24PM (#30013468)
In Europe they can’t do that.
Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by chrismorgan on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:58AM (#30021418)
In Australia, if they had an Australian presence they couldn’t do that, but given that they don’t, and each individual is importing a device, the Australian consumer protection laws don’t apply.