in stages so the phone will be priced at NUMBER_TOKEN for all orders received on or after november NUMBER_TOKENst NUMBER_TOKEN and then the price goes up another NUMBER_TOKEN bucks to NUMBER_TOKEN if you order after march NUMBER_TOKEN although they do go on to note that they have a refund policy good you know and it's i also appreciate their early communication on it but it it really feels like a desperate move the the hardware of this thing is already so substantially uncompetitive and even if they make some investments like they say they might into the hardware it's so far behind everything else that you can't make the hardware the value proposition and the software well i think it the whole package gives us all a bit of a reality check and it seems like every time we see one of these disappointing updates from purism we learn again just how hard it really truly is to take on the apple and google duopoly because it's not just the hardware it's the software and the ecosystems and that just alone has its own incredible challenges many of which i don't think we can even appreciate since we can't fully inspect the code of ios and android we can't even see all the problems they've solved android obviously at least the base is more open but that whole google layer is closed off to us and as is on ios it's with this that you think okay well where can we focus and do good if we can't really compete on the software at least at the user level and the apis and the ecosystem can we compete in a way that is more more genuine to free software more more like how we do where we slowly build up over time and we upstream technology and in the last week i think there was a link that started getting spread around that really made me think like this challenge is so much greater than we've ever conceptualized it was a post it was authored in mid-june but it's been i don't know why but it's been getting linked around like crazy this week and the post was created by madaya or median i apologize because he's a security researcher you may be familiar with the projects that he's worked on uh they work on huix or huniks i should say and their post was getting shared around and it really was trying to draw attention to mobile linux os is lacking what we would consider really kind of table stakes standard security features in android or ios yeah they know that at this point linux phones lack any significant security model and the points from the linux article apply to linux phones fully i mean if you've read their their article about the linux security implications you get linux on a phone all of those basically port over there's not yet a single linux phone with the same security model they don't have modern security features such as full system mac policies verified boot strong app sandboxing something we're still working on on the desktop modern exploit mitigations and so on which even most modern android phones already deploy those are all fair points right there is mandatory access controls and limiting application data access with sandboxing and you know a lot of stuff we have all the fundamental plumbing for but we're just not necessarily employing in our mobile os's yet there's that kind of security and then there's the kind of security that we talk a lot about on self-hosted and we talk about on
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