This month brings news that many of you have been waiting years for – we’re introducing the PineNote, a high-end e-ink device based on the powerful Quartz64 single board computer. But the good news…
You also have to mind that certain hardware components needed for certain products may not be available for one reason or another, even though all the hardware components for another product may be available.
Like, imagine the phone antenna supplier wasn’t able to secure enough resources, or they had a machine break down or whatever. Then they can’t produce the PinePhone, but could produce the PineNote just fine.
Even if they brought out a PinePhone XL or something, that would probably have a different phone antenna, probably a different phone antenna supplier, and might still be producible independently.
That happens often in the hardware business, it’s just more obvious here, because they produce pretty much on-demand and in relatively small batches, so their suppliers can’t either build up a supply chain with lots of fallbacks.
How are they able to keep releasing new products when their existing ones aren’t even in stock?
You also have to mind that certain hardware components needed for certain products may not be available for one reason or another, even though all the hardware components for another product may be available.
Like, imagine the phone antenna supplier wasn’t able to secure enough resources, or they had a machine break down or whatever. Then they can’t produce the PinePhone, but could produce the PineNote just fine.
Even if they brought out a PinePhone XL or something, that would probably have a different phone antenna, probably a different phone antenna supplier, and might still be producible independently.
That happens often in the hardware business, it’s just more obvious here, because they produce pretty much on-demand and in relatively small batches, so their suppliers can’t either build up a supply chain with lots of fallbacks.
The people developing the products aren’t the suppliers