Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There was article written by their former marketing director or something stating that the CPU, GPU and stuff are still sourced from China, and other places as well. They hide it from you. So like it’s an eye-watering price for old specs and doesn’t really deliver what it says it does.

  Found the link: …locals.com/…/why-i-wont-be-buying-purisms-librem…

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Obviously the CPU and GPU are made in China. You’d have to be an idiot to believe they were made in the US.

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• falcunculus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The fact they made it possible is impressive in itself. Sure it’s not competitive for the latest games or such, but society is more and more reliant on smartphones, so having a local option is valuable in itself.

  It’s a bit like countries making their own planes instead of buying the F-35, which is better and cheaper. They looked stupid at the time, until Trump came back and it turned out strategic autonomy had value.

  As for the price, probably it is due to small production ; but also simply underlines how we got used to not paying the “true” price of things, by moving production to places with cheaper costs & labor.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That last part for sure resonates. I can’t remember if I said it here or elsewhere, but our prices have been subsidized by substandard working conditions in China, there is no way around it. And all because large corporations wanted to make more money. And we, as consumers, shouted a resounded “hell yeah” to those Chinese suicides at Foxcon, because we wanted cheaper components and cheaper phones.

    And so I basically don’t know how I feel about anything. I try to be more cognizant about what I buy, where it’s from, how it’s made, but the speed and ease, and basically not having to think, sometimes trumps those thoughts.

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  • Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Plus, AFAIK, Purism is one of the few companies that pays their developers to write FOSS code, which produced the Phosh UI, basic call and text apps, and mobile-friendly UI library.

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• turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  5-10h battery life. Their goal list includes 20h idle time and recording video.

  They also seem to be doing the usual dance of “Made in USA!!!*”

  * what you think of when you think “electronic components” sourced from Asian countries, mostly we’re talking about assembly and that this is where it’s put in the consumer packaging.

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  • Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    By “nonstandard SIM” do you mean one of two common SIM sizes that are not “nano”, which is preferred by current phones?

    GNSS means it’s global. Which includes US GPS, as well as Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, and China’s BeiDou. Wikipedia

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    • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Fair, apparently at some point I conflated GNSS and Galileo.

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