In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?
They’ve been in business for a couple of years already so they have their stable niche, but yeah the target audience for these devices is rather small.
IIRC they sell a couple hundred thousand phones a year which is a very small operation compared to big makers that can move that volume on a single model within their lineups of dozens of yearly releases.
IIRC they sell a couple hundred thousand phones a year which is a very small operation compared to big makers that can move that volume on a single model within their lineups of dozens of yearly releases.
They have been in business for over 10 years now, the first one relased in 2013 even if it wasn’t really “fair” as today’s model, more of a rebrand that guaranteed that workers in China were treated fairly. Still they operate on very low volumes and probably on razor thin margins that don’t allow for big R&D projects but so far they have been profitable at least.
They’ve been in business for a couple of years already so they have their stable niche, but yeah the target audience for these devices is rather small.
IIRC they sell a couple hundred thousand phones a year which is a very small operation compared to big makers that can move that volume on a single model within their lineups of dozens of yearly releases.
Yeah that’s like 1d6 towns worth of phones.
They have been in business for over 10 years now, the first one relased in 2013 even if it wasn’t really “fair” as today’s model, more of a rebrand that guaranteed that workers in China were treated fairly. Still they operate on very low volumes and probably on razor thin margins that don’t allow for big R&D projects but so far they have been profitable at least.
Unfortunately they don’t sell their new version in the US.
So instead of maybe getting a Fairphone 5 as a backup phone, I bought a super cheap Pixel 7a with the Black Friday sale.