It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

    • David_Eight@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 months ago

      It’s very similar but with a different philosophy. Fairphone is about sustainability and being ethical. Framework is about repairability and upgradability(which the fairphone isn’t).

      • commandar@kbin.social
        6·
        6 months ago

        Sustainability is a large part of Framework’s mission as well. The CEO has explicitly said that one of their goals is that none of their laptops should end up in a landfill.

        • David_Eight@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 months ago

          That’s definitely true. There’s definitely a lot of overlap but, my point was that Fairphone specialized in making “ethical” electronics beyond just being repairable in a way afaik Framework does not. And I’m assuming that a Framework phone would be upgradable and the Fairphone is not.

          People looking to buy one would also look to at the other as an alternative though.

          • psud@aussie.zone
            1·
            6 months ago

            There’s room for an American ethical phone maker. There’s room for far more than two such companies in the world

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        6 months ago

        FairPhone is definitely about repairability. But yes, I keep waiting for a FairPhone that isn’t a total redesign from the previous so we can finally get yearly upgrades without needing a new phone. But the truth is, before the FP4 the design was still catching up to the competition.

    • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      41·
      6 months ago

      In my opinion Fairphone makes dodgy decisions, like removing a headphone jack and supplementing that with their own Fairbuds