My point is that the differences between the two products is strictly political, not technical, not Engineering. The same schematics and PCB (electronic Gerber files) are used in the case of both products. The same silicon manufactures build the same major components in both cases. The component market is global, not local. We can’t pretend with any sense of honesty that different manufacturers make the same chips for each respective Librem 5 product. Maybe the sub-penny resistors and capacitors come from different manufacturers. The technical differences are truely trivial except that people pay a lot more if Purism chooses to have the product manufactured in the US instead of in China.
Let’s use another scenario to demonstrate the point which no honest person can justify. Let’s say that the Librem 14 sales suddenly skyrocketed. In such a scenario, let’s say that Purism put the Librem 5 on-hold for several months and started shipping only Librem 14’s. Let’s say that the Librem 5 and the Librem 14 only had one component in common and that this one component was very rare and difficult to obtain. So all of this one component went in to Librem 14s instead. Would this be honest and ethical treatment toward the Librem 5 pre-order customers? The resourcing that is being diverted from my Librem 5 pre-order to a different business priority of Purism’s and is not Purism’s resource to wheel and deal with. They do have the means to shorten my waiting line or to ship my product to me. They choose to use my money to make investments elsewhere. That is unacceptable.