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>>fghtr+(OP)
Most of the things that they say have caused the high cost are sunk costs in design.

Given that the design is open, it should be possible for another company, who doesn't have these sunk costs, to deliver the same phone for less.

Does this mean that they have the price wrong? Can selling open designs ever recoup such design costs?

>>cjg+pf
You don't by the phone just for the actual device. You buy it mainly to support the start of actually open source phones. If you wanted a cheap phone you could just by a second hand android phone for dirt cheap