2023 Finance Report: Profitable, More Assets than Liabilities, Over $9m in Sales, 50% Margin – Purism
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Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
  • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org
    18·
    6 months ago

    Their prices are insane, $999.00 for a 11.5" tablet? $799.00 for a mini-PC? Are they fucking mental? Who would buy these?

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
      14·
      6 months ago

      I did. Saved up for years and then finalky pulled the trigger.

      It broke after about a week of use and took them about a year to give me a partial refund.

    • colourlesspony@pawb.social
      9·
      6 months ago

      There shtick is privacy. They are selling privacy oriented machines which is a value add for people who need device privacy but don’t have the bandwidth to to setup and audit everything themselves. The service they are selling is more privacy then value budget hardware.

    • pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
      6·
      6 months ago

      pricing is in line with the top ipad. I consider it kind of an activist move to buy one of these though, more about supporting a cause than getting a device with maximal functionality.

      • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org
        3·
        6 months ago

        With prices like this, it’s kind of performative activism though. It severely limits access and makes it like privacy is a luxury only a few can afford. That’s a weird message to be sending out.

  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    From what I’ve read and listened to, they’re misleading in this report when they say all crowdfunding backer devices have been fulfilled/delivered.

      • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I feel that pain, but probably not to the same degree. I’ve backed over 300 campaigns on Kickstarter and Gamefound. I’ve had around 8 that didn’t fulfill and didn’t give a refund – somewhere in the vicinity of $500-800 worth overall. It’s maddening when it feels like our money was either stolen or at best, wasted.

        • benneti@programming.dev
          1·
          6 months ago

          True, i kinda only ordered it to support mobile Linux development, however, by now I think there would have been much better places to do this than this company.

          • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            I’m sorry you’re having to deal with that – especially for a technology we’d all like to see in that space to provide good competition to the main two. Thanks for your efforts to push that forward!

  • ericjmorey@programming.dev
    11·
    6 months ago

    I like the ethos behind Purism, I was worried they wouldn’t be profitable at all. I hope this is enough profitablity to attract greater investment to grow and create economies of scale and lower the retail price and reduce lead times to be in line with the rest of the market.

  • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    It would be nice if companies like this came out with a budget model so more people could participate in supporting their products. Lotta poor folks into FOSS.

  • colourlesspony@pawb.social
    3·
    6 months ago

    I haven’t looked at there stuff in while. They have really compelling devices. There a bit too pricey for me at the moment.

  • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
    3·
    6 months ago

    I was just having a conversation about a Google free, AI Free phone option. This isn’t quite where the folks I was talking to need it to be (mostly needs eSim and 5G would be nice), but it certainly something to keep an eye on.