• random65837@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    Seriously, what’s “sustainable” about a one off phone, that most people have never heard of, that you won’t be able to get your replacement parts for in another couple years, assuming theyre even still making them?

    I know sustainable is a buzz word talking point these days, but c’mon. I’m all for the free market, competition, and everything built not coming from China, but at some point reaility needs to be part of the equation.

      • telllos@lemmy.world
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        3 years ago

        It’s just amazing how many people comment under fairphone post without knowing anything about the brand. I guess it’s mostly American user because it’s not sold in North America.

        But fairphone has been operating since 2013, they are not a one off.

        It’s really awesome what they are doing especially as they are the only one doing this. The right to repai is super important for consumer. It’s very sad to see people calling those issue “woke”.

        When people of every background and political spectrum are victim of corporation preventing them to easily fix what they buy.

        Talk to any farmers about jon dear! Or any buy it for life enthusiasts.

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      3 years ago

      Yeah and the reality is this ain’t a great phone by any metric. Who the fuck buys phones based on woke virtue signalling?

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        3 years ago

        Christ. They’re aimed at solving the problem of hardware that falls out of software support long before the hardware fails AND phones that need entirely replaced instead of being repaired.