The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years
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Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.
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Don't forget the fact they manufacture it in an oppressive authoritarian regime, where the sales tax goes to fund over 1 million Uighurs being held in literal concentration camps.
Imagine if 80 years ago there were products labeled "Ethically Made in Nazi Germany", and the marketing team said it's important to help the individual small businesses there so that the good people can have a higher standard of living.
It's mind boggling to me that people are falling for this.
They make the problem of their supply chain clear. And still, it is probably the most "fair" phone you can get, so I dont understand the critizism really.
Why arent you criticizing all the other manufacturers, that dont even try to do anything positive? Its always the small companies, that try to improve on things and then get shitted over for not going all the way. I dont understand it...
Because there are some other manufacturers, e.g. Samsung, which don't manufacture in China (for the most part), and IMO the problem of centralizing the world's supply chain in China is more important than what Fairphone is trying to do.
I don't understand how manufacturing in Korea is better than China. Hell, I'd call that pretty centralized still because it still relies on the same logistical problems.
They are making an effort though. Every other manufacturer also produces in China. Fairphone at least pays the workers better and tries to make the supply chain as ethical as possible.
No the don't. Samsung, for example, is almost all Made in Vietnam.
The Korean OEM has fully invested in Vietnam to reduce costs. I wish other OEMs ranging from Europe to India should invest in Vietnam.
If you want something manufactured in a country that isn't commiting human rights violations then you are not going to find it (not even the US, which is also funding a genocide right now)