The difference is that Librem laptops can run any OS like a standard PC. Many users perhaps don’t even use PureOS and put something else on.
It’s this software or nothing, essentially. I realize it’s open and that we could theoretically make our own, but phones are still an incredible beast to tame at this point.
This is going to work with basically zero carrier features and won’t even activate on important cellular networks like Verizon.
I don’t expect it to compete with the iPhone, but I have doubts that it will be a stable business for Purism. I guess we will find out.
I do see the stumbling. Have they shown us multi-touch at any point? Did you notice how this is a phone that depends on a control key to copy and paste text?
Every single finger touch screen UX convention that Apple sent down to us from the heavens in 2007 has been bafflingly ignored in this effort.
It’s a great start but this is a phone they’re shipping this year and they can’t even tell us many of the specs.
