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Unfortunately, I agree. I bought the Fairphone 3+ expecting they would keep the form factor to allow for upgrades in the modules, but with the FP4 they went from a company that had a clear market position to plain greenwashing.
I’ll keep hoping they reverse course now that they changed the CEO or that frame.work decide to enter the space as well.
Framework is making phones?
No, I said that I wish they did.
Yup. I use them as an example/case study in my classes about CSR/ESG.
Could you elaborate about this? Seems interesting, but I don’t even know what those abreviatons mean :)
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Social Governance. I teach English as a business school, sorry, I should have mentioned.
I choose some companies that sell similar products and have the students study and compare. This year I chose lots of companies that look great, but are also a bit off.
For example, I chose Fairphone, Murena and Teracube. They liked FP the best, but found it misleading and a little expensive. The two others were just not great hardware offers.
I would love if framework made a phone, they seem to be much more consistent with their mission. Makes me wish I needed a laptop.
I’m glad that I needed one recently and that it coincided with the release of their 13th gen Intel frameworks.
It’s been great so far.