Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts

• kopasz7@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Before BT headsets even existed, all of them were wired and none of them required lithium batteries or chips inside.

  Having to buy something makes it bad isn’t really an argument.

  It costs resources to produce. It is the one of the main missions of FP to reduce this by having to not by a new device if your current one breaks. If buying a new one wasn’t a problem, why are they trying to make it repairable?

  They are easily repairable and you don’t have to throw them away if the battery goes bad (just replace it).

  You get it.

  If you start reasoning like that its better to start living in the woods with no possessions at all.

  Taking my argument to the extreme naturally makes it absurd. But living in the woods isn’t my point.

  If you look at FP’s yearly financial statements, you can see how they are struggling. In 2021 and 2022 they were roughly at a breakeven point, turning basically no profit, in 2023 their operating loss was 37% of their net turnover.

  See previous comment:

  I’m saying it is very hypocritical and goes against their brand. If they simply came out and said: Look guys making phones sustainably cost too much, we need to sell higher margin items like dongles, BT earbuds and cases to have enough cashflow to continue manufacturing and R&D.

  Ok, fair enough. I would say.

  But trying to justify and greenwashing the whole ordeal is insulting. The tactic is straight out of Apple’s “Think different” book. Paying more for reduced functionality. Only for them to sell you more accessories for even more money.

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