Comment by vovavili
10 hours ago
>still be a product that you'll only buy if you put sustainability over performance/convenience
That would product that I and countless others would be gladly willing to buy on the smartphone market.
10 hours ago
>still be a product that you'll only buy if you put sustainability over performance/convenience
That would product that I and countless others would be gladly willing to buy on the smartphone market.
At what price though? There are many people who say they would buy a phone like Fairphone, but not at that price, or not unless it had a 3.5mm headphone jack or a better camera, etc etc. Talk is cheap but sustainable phones are not.
So are you buying a Fairphone right now? Because from my rough estimation Framework and Fairphone are about the same when it comes to performance/convenience tradeoff right now.
I mostly focused on the "YC disruption" part in GPs question without considering whether there is actually an opening for a disruptor. I think Fairphone may already be filling that gap.
I don't see a reason to buy a new phones when I can buy refurbished flagships from a couple of years prior. The fact that this is the best option available is precisely what strikes me as being so straightforward to fix.
So what would your straightforward "fix" look like? Buying refurbished phones is nothing to "fix", and undercutting the psychological effect of pre-ownership price-drops is essentially impossible.
I'm really not sure what you are getting at.
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