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Originally Posted by coderedcomputing View Post
Anyone else find it odd that the estimated/rumored/proposed cost is so ridiculously high for a phone with a linux OS? I mean, it just hit me in the face. I spent near $400 for my N900 with a linux OS, but I get 3+ distributions when I buy an $11 magazine at the book store. I know the hardware can be costly but... something just off about that.
Even if the OS is LInux it doesn't mean the engineers is working for free...

AFAIK MacOSX is based on FreeBSD and still iphone/Ipad/Imac is overpriced...
 

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