• mlg@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    50/50 chance it sells at a premium compared to other models, making the entire idea useless

    Source: Like every project that pretended to do this with their respective market

    Why the hell is a light phone more expensive than a mid to high range model smartphone. I’d rather just buy that and swap the ROM if I want to remove google.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah I know my sample size is pretty useless, but this was just a dumb excuse to complain about light phone because even SMB manufacturing cost wise, it should be almost comically cheap to produce.

        There are lots of other hardware accessories in the same range that cost much less to buy as a consumer, that are produced by more expensive vendors.

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          4 hours ago

          Yeah but what is the volume they are selling and are they profiting from user data both of those things have a significant impact on price.