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Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore
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Tablet?
I would think they'd do a phone first given the market for phones is way bigger.
Isn’t that basically what Fairphone is?
It's very similar but with a different philosophy. Fairphone is about sustainability and being ethical. Framework is about repairability and upgradability(which the fairphone isn't).
Sustainability is a large part of Framework's mission as well. The CEO has explicitly said that one of their goals is that none of their laptops should end up in a landfill.
That's definitely true. There's definitely a lot of overlap but, my point was that Fairphone specialized in making "ethical" electronics beyond just being repairable in a way afaik Framework does not. And I'm assuming that a Framework phone would be upgradable and the Fairphone is not.
People looking to buy one would also look to at the other as an alternative though.
There's room for an American ethical phone maker. There's room for far more than two such companies in the world
FairPhone is definitely about repairability. But yes, I keep waiting for a FairPhone that isn't a total redesign from the previous so we can finally get yearly upgrades without needing a new phone. But the truth is, before the FP4 the design was still catching up to the competition.
In my opinion Fairphone makes dodgy decisions, like removing a headphone jack and supplementing that with their own Fairbuds
They announced a partnership with Cooler Master, which to me suggests that that is not the case.
They already work with Cooler Master. I believe they designed the cooling for the laptops and this case.. And why would Cooler Master work on a tablet and not a phone, phones need cooling to lol?
Read the article my dude
They wouldn't work on either because that's not the type of products they make.
Phones don't have much on the way of cooling
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/phone-cooler/cryo/#specifications
That's an external cooler attachment...
Yes
...it's not a phone?
No, it's not a phone. That's the "Cooler Master Cryo Phone Cooler". It's a phone cooler that attaches to the back of your phone to provide additional cooling while gaming and what not. So when you said
Not really true, Cooler Master had already made a cooler for phones. It's not much of a stretch to say they might release another product in the phone category.
No, it is very true. Building a glorified clip-on fan is not the same thing as making a phone.
What's your point, nobody said it was?
I mean I feel like that's pretty clearly what you were insinuating, but if not then I'm not sure what YOUR point is.
The point is not only that phones don't have cooling systems (outside of niche devices like RedMagic and ROG) but that CM has no experience with that sort of thing, so its unlikely to be a phone because they would not need CM's investment for that.
If Framework made a modular phone then CM could make a modular similar to the one I linked that could attach to the FW phone. Or the phone wouldn't involve CM at all and they're working on a different product altogether.
What do you think the next Framework/Cooler Master collaboration is?
I did read it, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here?
I'm afraid I don't know how to be anymore clear
You can tell me how the quote from the article connects to what I said and what led you to believe I didn't already read it.