There’s been a lot of buzz here about the Fairphone here lately, especially with it coming to the US.

On paper, it seems rather nice. Ethically sourced, privacy friendly stock ROM.

But the skeptic in me does say, “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.”

What are the drawbacks of Fairphone that seem to be shunned away, or less discussed both by the company and community at large? Why shouldn’t I just buy a Pixel 7a and put GrapheneOS on it instead?

  • HughJanus
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    1 year ago

    You can still pay Apple to do the repair for you.

    Sometimes you can. Sometimes they will just flat out refuse.

    Other times they will charge you such an exorbitant fee that it makes no sense. They don’t do board repairs, they’ll just tell you you need a new one.

    So no, not really.

    Also, don’t act as if the Android phone industry is any better that Apple w.r.t. self-repair.

    It is 1 million times better. Any parts I need for my Pixel can be ordered directly from ifixit or taken to ubreakifix to be repaired by a third party. No problem.

    That does not happen.

    It does. It’s been documented time and time again.

    They once did a thing that was terribly communicated and you can absolute fault Apple for that

    No they’ve done this many times.

    If the battery is replaced (remember, Apple at least gives you the option to do that), this throttle becomes unnecessary and therefore disabled.

    That was only added after they were caught.