What does a sustainable smartphone look like?
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In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?
  • auradragon1@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    They’re a limited liability company, so no stock market pressure. As a Dutch BV voting majority can still lie with the founders.

    LLC doesn’t mean it’s automatically better. LLCs can also have investors and a board. Furthermore, it could be less advantageous to be a private company because you can’t see into their financials and there is no transparency.

    Most people buy a new phone if it gets damaged from a drop. It happens quite often. Here you can swap the parts cheaply and with only a screwdriver.

    But the phone will get repaired (if it still has value) and gets resold. Anecdotally, most of my friends and family just get the screen repaired.

    If you wonder how sturdy it is: https://youtu.be/H1UJ5k3yMvA?si=zQ1VEeA8YqMINUR7

    Any drop test?

    And here’s Louis Rossman on it: https://youtu.be/EAogtqyN22M?si=9slIZEuTbAZhE__Y

    Sorry, who? And what is the message? Not going to watch it.

    And remember, you can always switch away from Fairphone if they become “evil”. It’s not like Google, Amazon or the influence of Social Media companies that you can’t escape.

    It uses Android, right? So why does it matter? You’re going to get Google influence since it’s Android no matter what.