“Openmoko supposedly had 10,000 phones shipped in 2009, PINE64 have already shipped more than 3 times that amount.”
Thirty thousand phones is a rounding error for Apple. For Linux phones it is the first real installed base. Nokia, HP, Mozilla and Canonical all walked away when the strategy changed. PINE64 sells other hardware, so its phone doesn’t have to carry the company. Purism keeps announcing delays and price hikes instead.