

More to the point. Making a cheap phone is not an affordable endeavour.
Linux phone makers such as pine have discovered this in the past. As your first products are going to be low demand. Running a business on the profit margins of lower priced phones becomes hard. It seriously limits your ability to gain investments. Making competition with similar priced products insanely complex.


Nods considering it really was not long ago (within my gen x lifetime). Tool use was assumed to be unique to humans. It really is starting to get harder for humanity to consider itself unique in any way.