I find the term “Made in USA Electronics” confusing. I take your point that most customers aren’t going to read the fine print, so there is no point defining what you mean in the fine print when you use the term in advertising, but maybe a link here to a blog post / other official Purism information that explains how you use the term (since the question has been raised here).
Exactly. When you consider all of the 1300-odd components that go into the Librem 5 USA, it is not 0 that are made in the US and it is not 1300 that are made in the US. It is a ladder to be climbed from whatever it is now to 1300.
(I didn’t just make up that number, 1300, but nor am I asserting it as fact. I borrowed it from a post by Amos Batto, who obviously knows lots.)
Of course none of this changes the fact that the Trump T1 phone has very quickly gone from “Made in the US” to quietly dropping the claim altogether. You wonder whether they ever intended to sell a phone that was made in the US and, regardless, how all that went down behind closed doors. Would like to have been a fly on the wall …