It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
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?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That’s one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding — it wants to expand beyond the laptop into “additional product categories.”
Framework CEO Nirav Patel tells me that has always been the plan and that the company originally had other viable ideas beyond laptops, too.
Framework might choose an “equally difficult” category or might instead try something “a bit smaller and simpler to execute, streamlined now that we have all this infrastructure.”
(Patel recently suggested to Jason Carman that Framework might adapt its marketing to reach more everyday audiences.)
The company’s $9 million seed round paid for the original 13-inch laptop design, which has carried on for three generations of components.
Today, Framework has about 50 employees, and it plans to expand to 60 before the end of the year, with “a bit of additional team growth” in 2025.
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An ergo mechanical keyboard. There are already several that are good and repairable, but the more the merrier.
More serious phone competitors welcome as well!
Oh, and a Bluetooth speaker with a replaceable battery.
Tablet?
I would think they’d do a phone first given the market for phones is way bigger.
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?
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).
Please god revive project Ara, maybe using the GPU connector for all the modular pieces.