$150 for a closed source box with no screen which means you have to sign your transactions blindly and which gives Block the ability to completely surveil all your transactions. Seems like all the concerns we raised multiple times in this thread have been completely ignored and Block have powered ahead with the worst possible combination of features.
Hard pass.
Even worse, Jack's original 2021 announcement said that their work would be open source (as much as possible), as did one of their early blog posts.
I asked one of their leads on Twitter who replied "Yes we still plan to publish our code before we ship" (
https://x.com/max_guise/status/1732808300427690113?s=20)
As we know, "publish" code is different from open source. Unfortunately Max did not reply to my followup questions asking about commitment to using FOSS licenses. Hopefully they will follow through on Jack's original commitment.