If Pine64 can't pull it off with millions in funding then I'm not sure how Graphene is going to accomplish that.

Those operations, much as i respect them, did not reach the attention that GrpaheneOS has. Have they reached a takeoff velocity that more principled players didn't? Wouldn't be the first time we sang that chorus.

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pjmlp 4 days ago | parent [-]

As someone seeing this going on since OpenMoko, was at Nokia when Nokia 770 Internet Tablet was shown to employees for feedback before going public, it has always been the same story regarding getting these devices actually flying off the shelves from consumer shops.

Some enjoy more attention than others, savy people buying them online, and eventually fade away for the next attempt, while general public continues unaware of their existence.

	▲	gausswho 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		This too is part of a pattern. Punk followed rock and roll. Is GrapheneOS the band that brings the culture? I wanna say yes on its own merits, but it's the political buffoonery that makes me think it's caught some lightning in a bottle.