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Sure, but at a 200$ price point you can pay a bit extra for a device to play around with.
A 600$+ device like the Pro, however should better be actually useful as a daily driver, which currently AFAIK it is not. Also the same company sells similar hardware for half the price, which is what makes it especially overpriced.
But Pro costs 400$. I have both PP and PPP. Maybe it depends on the person, but for me the PP is too slow, I can't use as my main phone. When I had the opportunity, I bought PPP and daily drive it now.
You mean that Pine64 sell PP and PPP? I wouldn't say "similar hardware" in this case. Pro have way faster CPU, better camera, faster emmc, better screen glass.
It doesn't cost 400$. That's the price before taxes, shipping and import duty. The official pine64eu store has the real price which is 592.50€
What I mean is that if they can sell the Pinebook Pro with the same SoC and a PP with a nearly identical hardware other than the SoC each for a bit more than 200$, then asking 600$ for the Pro is clearly overpriced.
Pine64eu is not an official store.
It is run by one of the core members of the Pine64 design team AFAIK. For all intends and purposes it is the official EU store of Pine64 even though you are right that legally speaking it is a separate entity.