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jabjoe@feddit.uk 7 months agoMy last phone I got 5 years out of and it was second hand when I got it. At work we make of point of keeping old equipment going as long as we can (adaptors is one of the ways of doing that). I’m absolutely not encouraging waste.
Competing against the main phone makers is extremely hard. The market is very competitive on hardware. FairPhone do about as well as they can do. The problem is blind trust in markets. Consumers aren’t suddenly all going to wake up and make long term decisions with lower value upfront. It’s like FairTrade, why is it left to a consumer choice if trade is fair or not? What is needed is regulations.
I’m afraid your audio jack is legacy so few want it’s not even part of this discussion to me.
Ross_audio@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’ve probably lost to the competition already.
Nokia are more sustainable and offer more options for a lower price.
Fairphone are a virtue signalling brand at best now and a hypocritical one at that.
Anyone with a fairphone 4 might have made an honest mistake, a 5 or later and they’re just gullible.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Even they aren’t the most sustainable directly anymore, it shows there is an appetite for sustainability. But as I said before, I don’t want this just left to the market. I want ratcheting minimum legal sustainability standard, right to repair in law and repairability index on products. Plus a lot of other stuff to help alternative operating systems compete.
Ross_audio@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The EU and Nokia are at the forefront of what you’re asking for.
Ultimately the more appetite for sustainability the better and the less custom sent to companies which are not actually sustainable the better.
Fairphone isn’t a sustainable company it’s pretending to be one and taking market share from more reputable companies.