[HN Gopher] Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from...
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Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
Author : Hackbraten
Score : 14 points
Date : 2023-05-18 15:27 UTC (7 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (forums.puri.sm)
| rationalist wrote:
| I don't think it was "quiet". Their latest email said the Librem
| 5 will be in stock in July (pre-order commitments finally
| fulfilled).
| jandrese wrote:
| A _full year_ lead time on a laptop seems insane to me. I like
| supporting open hardware companies, but am not so keen on
| supporting companies that can 't seem to get their shit together.
| Even 5 months is a good long wait.
| piperswe wrote:
| The Librem 5 is a phone, not a laptop. Though a year lead time
| on a phone is probably even worse than on a laptop.
| xupybd wrote:
| I'm surprised people are returning this. It's an ideologically
| driven product. I'd expect it to have a few more warts than your
| typical consumer product.
|
| The trade off is that you get a totally open source phone. For
| some people that is important. For others it's not, but why would
| they pre-order if it's not?
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| People might be willing to pay more and wait longer for an open
| source phone, but when they finally get the phone they do still
| expect it to not suck. So high returns suggests that the phone
| sucks after all. I would say that the Nokia N9 UI was well
| designed, but the phone or its software was so slow it was
| almost unusable. If I had paid full price for mine I would have
| been pissed.
| xupybd wrote:
| I see what you're saying. I guess I expect these sorts of
| things to suck.
| Hackbraten wrote:
| Old snapshot from 2023-05-15: [0]
|
| New snapshot from 2023-05-18: [1]
|
| For the first time in years, availability lead time for the (non-
| USA) Librem 5 seems to have been quietly slashed from 52 weeks to
| 20 weeks.
|
| [0]:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230515022643/https://puri.sm/p...
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| [1]:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230518152612/https://puri.sm/p...
| woopwoop24 wrote:
| Summary: With apologies for the delay, we are now preparing your
| Librem 5 to ship and need you to read this email carefully with
| replying until May 01, 2023.
|
| i ordered mine on 14.10.2019
| Hackbraten wrote:
| I've accidentally submitted a non-permanent link. Please edit,
| thanks!
|
| The correct permalink would be:
|
| https://forums.puri.sm/t/has-purism-refunded-you-is-purism-g...
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| Reduced lead time because nobody was buying? Meh.
| spit2wind wrote:
| Took 3 years to get mine. I didn't sign up for call service and
| can't comment on call quality. They push updates regularly and
| the quality consistently improves. It could hardly take a picture
| when I got it. Now, it takes a decent photo. As others have
| commented, the product is ideologically driven. That's the main
| buy-in for me--I'd like to see more free software in consumer
| products. At the very least, it's an expensive and fun pocket
| computer. Maybe its vision reaches full fruition. Maybe it helps
| the next attempt to open up mobile.
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