▲ 235 ▼ Pine64 has started shipping their smart speaker! (pine64.com) submitted 4 months ago by cadekat@pawb.social to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world 59 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) Which I guess is a nice way to avoid legislation... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 months ago* Sure, but they wouldnt exist without that. Making micro batches of specialized hardware is not profitable at all. Offering a real warranty would immediately bankrupt them. If they sold more than a few thousand devices per model then i would care, but meanwhile big manufacturers get away with so much worse. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 months ago* Sure, but they wouldnt exist without that. Making micro batches of specialized hardware is not profitable at all. Offering a real warranty would immediately bankrupt them. If they sold more than a few thousand devices per model then i would care, but meanwhile big manufacturers get away with so much worse. permalink fedilink source parent