• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    The hardware specs have always been mediocre on the Fairphone. Buying a high end phone will get you more years from the same phone.

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      2 hours ago

      Sure. What I don’t get is Fairphone not building a high end device.

      Assembling a 1500 € phone should cost about the same as a 600 € phone. A more expensive phone also gives a bigger margin to work with to pay for all the extra labor and other „fair“ costs.

      Then a Fairphone could become a status symbol as well.

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      11 hours ago

      For their mission statement this is acceptable. You can’t easily do things like fairphone without also charging a premium for that.

      If they start exploiting labour like chinese OEMs they could offer similar or cheap phones like them with better specs.