• UGMadness@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.