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[-] BandanaBug@piefed.social 61 points 1 day ago

Then why are fairphones so expensive for their specs?

[-] Sunshine@piefed.social 63 points 1 day ago

Because they cannot bulk buy parts and hire engineers like how the larger manufacturers can.

[-] PostaL@lemmy.world 35 points 23 hours ago

So then... sustainable phones cost more?

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 14 points 19 hours ago

I think the idea is that you can make them but the large manufacturers actively choose not to, because being anti-consumer, anti-sustainability, and anti-repair is not a problem in their business model, it's a core strategy of it.

[-] ArtificialLink@lemy.lol 1 points 7 hours ago

The why doesn't someone at scale make sustainable phones?

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 19 points 23 hours ago

Well not if larger manufacturers made them I guess? Fairphone just doesn't get the same prices even from the same vendors, if there's any that overlap between say them and Samsung.

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