• rglullis@communick.news
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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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.

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      plain greenwashing

      Yup. I use them as an example/case study in my classes about CSR/ESG.

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        Could you elaborate about this? Seems interesting, but I don’t even know what those abreviatons mean :)

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          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.