<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Sven,<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 06.11.2017 um 18:04 schrieb Sven Dyroff <<a href="mailto:S.Dyroff@phytec.de" class="">S.Dyroff@phytec.de</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">Hello Nikolaus,</font>
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<br class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">that's indeed really much money.</font></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Well, this is a matter of what you compare to. Yes, it is much money compared to a single, cheap Android thing you buy at a supermarket.</div><div>It is much money compared to a gimmick.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>It is less money compared to the budget Purism now has. 2 Mio USD...</div><div>We just would need to convince them to help to finish the GTA04A5... It would be just 1% for them.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Of course we must define what the benefit for Purism would be.</div><div>Hm. For example, they could go into the annals of open source as the hero who rescued the GTA04A5 project to build on it.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>And it is really nothing compared to the budgets Google and Apple have. Or how much public money is wasted every day. Or shifted at stock markets.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Anyways we do not have it and have to find/convince someone to spend/donate it.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class=""> But
the GTA04 has one very big advantage:</font>
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<br class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class=""> IT'S PROVED TO BE FUNCTIONAL!!!</font>
<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Indeed.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Or this big advantage is also the big problem. The GTA04A5 doesn't promise a dream or challenge. It is already here. How dull and boring ;)</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">
<br class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">As far as I can see everything other
is currently nothing more than fiction. Let us take the Neo900 for example:
I'm still hoping that I'll get one, some day. According to the original
schedule it should have been delivered since several years, now. So meanwhile
I already would be happy if it will be shipped to me before the according
radio networks with which its modem works will be switched off forever
due to 5G...</font>
<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Well, they may plan for a modem module upgrade - which delays it even further.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">I don't expect Librem 5 and others to
share a better fate than Neo900. GTA04 has already passed a very long way
which all others still need to go. Hopefully Neo900 is still on place second
in the run. </font></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>They are indeed closer than the Librem 5. There is full schematics for the Neo900 available. They just have not managed to get this from bits to atoms, i.e. make a PCB and get it assembled. For the Librem 5 I am not even sure if the feature set is stable. Maybe they have something beginning of next year.</div></div><br class=""></div><div class="">BR,</div><div class="">Nikolaus</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>