I also read it as "baked into PinePhone". As to why, well the headline didn't include the fact that the PinePhone ships with no software. So that's not information I had at the time.

I was wrong the new ones do have software but nothing official, so its not really baked as much as random distros from random people.

Most SBC don’t come with software.

Pinephone ships with software, and aside maybe from some early dev units, it always did.

What does it ship with? I don’t thing mine did, and Pine64’s philosophy was we make the hardware, you make the software, aside from PineBook’s KDE edition off the top of my head.

UT, Manjaro, Mobian, pmOS. Even the back covers had logos of what each batch shipped with. Now it's just Manjaro on all the Beta phones.

That they don't write the software doesn't mean they don't ship with it.

Thanks! I don’t remember mine having it but it had been a while, the unlocked bootloader is a security threat that xiaomi had where malware was flashed, so it’s probably a good idea they don’t ship with software for security reasons, it’s such an easy target.