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Both global and EU store still sell things. They are still active on social media. I have plenty of their products (PinePhone with keyboard case, PinePhone Pro with LoRA add-on, Pinecil, PineTab2, PineNote, PineTime) which I use often, some on a daily basis, other weekly basis. They just work. As others have pointers out they don't do software, "just" hardware with some community fostering. If tomorrow they announce another product (not sure what that could be as, simply by listing now they are covering already a LOT) and if I need it, I would buy it without much hesitation.
Now I imagine if they don't have anything new they don't announce much, which is reasonable. They might not need the "buzz" as long as they manage the sales in their pipelines.
I would honestly like to see more products but arguably they already have good coverage. Let me ask you then, what do you wish they would add to their existing product line?
I would guess that they'll be sourcing a next-gen RISC-V processor ASAP, since those will enable virtualisation. If they stick one in a laptop shell I'd probably buy it pretty quickly. Doubly so if it has EFI.
They already sell the Pinetab RISC-V so quite feasible. I'm not sure I'd buy one as I already have a Banana-Pi (SpacemiT K1 8 so not exactly "next-gen") so my next purchase on that would probably be something that would be relatively powerful enough to "forget" it's not ARM/AMD64 for daily usage (which we might not be very far from, not really sure).
The moment I can get a laptop-style RISC-V device with virtualisation support I'm doing it. Double bonus if I can actually use it as my daily driver.