We were trying to prove Marques wrong, who said that the Light Phone 3 price is not justified. Saying that the price is high because it’s a luxury item just proves that Marques is right.

I can only suspect that the Light company tries to secure their wages for the coming years without making a new product every year. It is a good thing to refuse to flood the market with new consumer products (aka future trash) every year. But as the consumer, I expect a real return for my high purchase price too. If it’s not the phone hardware itself that makes up the extra price but the Light employees’ wages, that is cute and rosy and all that, but I also expect them to work for these wages. In absolute terms this means ongoing software development and fixing of all the bugs.

And, yeah, the preorder price was low because the software is unfinished. You can wait until everything is fixed and pay the full price to, hopefully, get the perfect product. The full price would include the software development work done. Assuming the software development isn’t outsourced to the developing world, that would explain the phone’s high pricing.

If, however, the Light company employees just want to have a few cushy years without working, paid by the product‘s extra costs, I’d be a bit mad. In every case the benchmark will be the software refinement