why open source friendly phones are so expensive ?

Posted Feb 8, 2026 18:05 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: why open source friendly phones are so expensive ? by jch
Parent article: Open source for phones: postmarketOS

([…], but for some reason they couldn't bring themselves to obsolete older computers altogether.)

They're doing a pretty efficient job on that by way of the Windows 10 EOL scam/outrage/imposition. That should do wonders for the adoption of Linux by people whose computers can't be updated to Windows 11 but are otherwise perfectly functional.