>or that they can't subsidize the cost with spying?
There's no evidence CCP is "subsidizing the cost with spying" when it comes to consumer electronics. Even when it came to telecom gear (during 5G rollout in developed countries), concerns were mostly theoretical.
I didn't mean the CCP and by spying I meant harvesting user data for ads. We were talking about why a US built phone is so expensive (Librem) compared to say Samsung, LG, etc. Are companies that aren't Purism offsetting their cost by harvesting juicy user data?
There's no evidence CCP is "subsidizing the cost with spying" when it comes to consumer electronics. Even when it came to telecom gear (during 5G rollout in developed countries), concerns were mostly theoretical.