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Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore (www.theverge.com)
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It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

I would love to see them make modular and repairable:

  • Phones
  • Tablets
  • 2-in-1s
  • Televisions
  • Monitors
  • Cameras
  • WiFi routers
  • Printers (copier, scanner)

Those things so often end up in the dump just because one small part fails, or gets too outdated. Think about all the parts in a wifi router that work just fine, but get thrown away anyway, because the radio module doesn’t support the shiny new WiFi version.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

I hope not phones. Fairphone has the repairable market, and that would take away from Framework as well as Framework taking away from Fairphone, making both weaker.

Maybe tablets would make sense, if you could reuse components from the laptops.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Options and competition are good things for consumers. Not sure why you would be against that.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

When you have a small market niche, competition can kill both companies. I'm not worried about options, I'm worried that soon both companies won't exist.

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