i think there are different market share, if you want the latest shiny box usually you dont care about anything else, if you care about privacy and security you just want them, of course more feature you have, more chance you have to sell it, but the price will rise, then you will have less chance to sell it
in my opinion they could add newest “hardware” feature in future revision of this smartphone, because more stuff you have more appealing the product is, but do a big jump at the beginning is like to be dead before to born
i think they are doing everything in the right way, i just hope if (when) they dont meet the goal, they will understand that’s because too much people are skeptical about ios/android alternative, they saw too much failure firefox os, jolla, ubuntu touch, win mobile, that’s why alot of people will not support it from beginning, they need to have it on their hands and after a while i think this project could rise up alot.
i think if this project will fail no one else will try it again in the future and the chance to an open and privacy focussed smartphone will die with this project, i think purism have a big responsability on this
i’m not an business expert but i can just think the big fail intel done with the mobile when apple ask to them to make the cpu for the iphone, they was thinking there no market, the google guys tried to sell google when was almost newborn and no one bought it, and now is one of the biggest company in the world
what i’m trying to say is there is some project seems to be a failure, but this means nothing if the project is valid and there is no alternative on it, like the librem phone is
if they will not fund the goal is just because of other project failure, too much people are skeptical because of it, then alot of people don’t wanna pay and wait more than one year before for a product they don’t even know. there is a reason if companies pay famous youtuber for show the last game or their shiny product, because they need people see it before buy, and i’m talking about famous company, and purism is not famous, so there is alot of people interested but they know nothing yet about them or this project
that’s a kind of message for purism crew, i really love what you do because is important more than you can think, because not everyone live in a democratic state and have the right tools for fight the “bad guy” it’s about life or death for activist and journalist have the right or the wrong tools, and this tools will help to build a better world
that’s why i really hope they will meet the goal, but looking the numbers seems to be impossible, that’s why i’m writing this and i really hope they will be able to do it even if the goal is not reached, i think they will raise more money they got with the laptop (400k usd) and i hope will be enough for the project