It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
Please just nail laptops and get where they are in stock and new parts keep being released before you spread yourself too thin.
Honestly? Yea. There’s so much potential revenue selling to businesses that they haven’t even begun tapping into yet.
I would love to see them make modular and repairable:
- Phones
- Tablets
- 2-in-1s
- Televisions
- Monitors
- Cameras
- WiFi routers
- Printers (copier, scanner)
Those things so often end up in the dump just because one small part fails, or gets too outdated. Think about all the parts in a wifi router that work just fine, but get thrown away anyway, because the radio module doesn’t support the shiny new WiFi version.
Average people really don’t care about newest wifi version, so I’d say routers are one of the longest living electronics in most households, unless they are rented out from your ISP who might be interested in updating it often to justify the rent.
Printers. God that market sucks right now. I had to break down and get one recently and just feel dirty. I know I’m fucked when its eol
I as far as I know the best OpenWRT AP’s / Routers you can buy right now is the Banana Pi R64, R3, R4(Still in development). Open source firmware with a long support life of updates and security patches and a nice metal casing.
I say as far as I know because I have not bought one yet as I don’t have the funds for that right now. It is my next AP replacement though.
I hope not phones. Fairphone has the repairable market, and that would take away from Framework as well as Framework taking away from Fairphone, making both weaker.
Maybe tablets would make sense, if you could reuse components from the laptops.
Fairphone has the repairable market
In Europe.
Framework sells their products in more markets, including North America, which adds another 600 million potential customers.
This says you have been able to buy a Fairphone in the US since July last year, unless I’ve misunderstood?
Options and competition are good things for consumers. Not sure why you would be against that.
I think the only way it makes sense for Framework to get into the phone market is to follow the footsteps of Pine64 trying to create Linux phones. There’s no point making a phone at an inherently higher cost to make it more durable and repairable with a “closed SDK” SoC that has a fixed EoL date. I made a more detailed comment about this in the main thread.
After five years building laptops, what might Framework add to the portfolio? Patel won’t say — I only get the barest hints, no matter how many different ways I ask.
Thanks for the nothing burger?
Do electric cars next. No AI bullshit. Just modular, repairable, customizable vehicles.
Well maybe they need a…
000 18M investment!
Jk, how about electric bikes then?
Tablet?
I would think they’d do a phone first given the market for phones is way bigger.
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).
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?