points by bpavuk 2 days ago | 0 comments
my sole excuse is price. I'd happily cough up anything below $1100 for this particular phone. anything above that is simply exorbitant. RAM went 5x over 2026, so I'm practically forced to not consider any hardware purchase at all, not even used, for now
[–] microtonal 2 days ago
I'll wait a few months for prices to go down a little, but I'm excited to get one.
[–] JumpCrisscross 2 days ago
> my sole excuse is price
To be clear, I’m not criticizing anyone balking at a $1,600 phone. I’m expressing skepticism at marketing a GrapheneOS phone at that price point.
[–] HybridStatAnim8 2 days ago
Its not being marketed as a GrapheneOS phone. It is a Motorola phone that will come with MotorolaOS. It additionally meets the hardware security requirements for GrapheneOS, and can be flashed with it. There is a possibility preinstalled options will be available but nothing has been confirmed.
[–] sneak 2 days ago
I fail to see the logic in it being worth $1099 but not $2k.
If your max price point were $600 or something, sure, but once you’re above $1k what’s the difference? You already value it greatly.
[–] palata 2 days ago
So if you can pay 20k for a car, you may as well pay 100k, because you already want a car? I'm not sure I get the argument.
2k is two times 1k. There are many things that I would not buy for double the price.
[–] sneak 21 hours ago
He said the price being over his $1100 cap was what stopped him. It exceeded his cap by $499.
In your example where you were sold on a $20k car, would the car being $20,499 stop you from buying it?
[–] Zetaphor 2 days ago
Do you assume that beyond a certain threshold people just have infinite money?
[–] kakacik 2 days ago
Your sole excuse will disappear within few months, lets see how it works for your then
[–] bpavuk 1 day ago
well if I can finance it then it's alright. I strongly believe that this is a device for at least 10 years, so it's totally worth it
[–] tranq_cassowary 18 hours ago
Only 7 years of guaranteed updates.
[–] drnick1 2 days ago