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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now, are they being greedy fucks, or is the price difference with other brands indicative of how much money other manufacturers make on data-mining you ?

[–] Gecko 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's more just them learning that they cannot have mass production (seeing how they still have pre-order Librem 5's to ship) so they purposefully go for an overpriced model to just have a smaller number of orders.