Last Updated on July 7, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
The BLACKLIST of Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org:
I have invested a lot of time in the Pinephone:
- installing LibreOffice
- reviewing other Office applications
- about the unavailability of the Pinephone keyboard
- alternatives to the Pinephone keyboard
- The Pinephone as a privacy phone
- alternatives to the Pinephone as a privacy phone
The Pinephone and the Pinephone keyboard would be interesting for us personally
- as a privacy phone
- as a phone for office applications
- but this requires a keyboard
- the Pinephone had one, but it was pulled from the market
- even if it had issues, one could work with it and develop further.
- Without the Pinephone keyoard the Pinephone for office applications is at the Rii mini 4 and XDA developers level.
- We need an office application which is usable
- this requires a community who cares to make it easier to use
- for instance Word 97 installation which is still difficult
- and a community who cares about keyboard shortcuts files.
- All of this is also not available from another company such as Apple
- if Pine64 would have sold the Pinephone to Apple to make a new Apple phone from it
- So for us personally the Pinephone is a lot of noise about phone which offers only basic operations.
- But still this basic operations would be interesting, since these are basic operations on a Linux phone.
- But again, without a Pinephone, why should we not buy a Pixel 3 with Ubuntu Touch as a privacy phone instead of the Pinephone which costs much less?
But altough I invested a lot of time in the Pinephone, I could not use it for a single day for the purpose I bought it and that is mobile office, mainly due to the lack of a keyboard which is reliably on the market.
The Pinephone keyboard may come back, but the trust in Pine64 has a crack. You can mend it but you will still see the crack.