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A bunch of people are. If you compare the efforts of communities of volunteers against the investments in google/apple phones you can already call FOSS phones a big success.

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It's not chic though so can you call it a success just because it's possible and works but you have to put a little effort in?

The idiotic silent downvotes are unnecessary.

This board has a real hate-boner for the PinePhone for some reason. Any phone that isn't 100% as capable as a flagship iOS or Android gets defined as "not ready to be a daily driver", because people think their definition of "daily driver" is some universal constant that everyone abides by. The rest of us who happily use it as a daily driver apparently don't exist in their worldview.

Already in this subthread there's "We're not there yet", "I couldn't conscientiously hand it to a non-techy", "It's nowhere near ready to be used as a phone outside of tinkering", "something that falls apart in their hands like wet sawdust", ...

> This board has a real hate-boner for the PinePhone for some reason

What a strange thing to say. It's hugely popular on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That doesn't change what I said.

I wonder if it's a sign of the HN crowd moving from startups to FAANGs.

So much for the "hacker" news...

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