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Re:Fairphone 5 review: The most uncompromising repairable ph... by nomel on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @02:55PM (#37756011)
> not just you who can afford an iPhone and AppleCare.

I’m not sure I understand. An iPhone SE is cheaper than a fairphone, with longer support and far better specs. From a quick search, third party knock off replacement screens and battery replacement kits are cheaper for an iPhone, I assume due to the orders of magnitude difference in scale.

The math isn’t working, from my simple perspective.

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Re:Fairphone 5 review: The most uncompromising repairable ph... by softfalcon on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @07:45PM (#37759067)
The person was asking about why they should care about repair-ability as an iPhone user. I wasn't trying to do a cost-benefit analysis of iPhone vs FairPhone.

I personally don't really care what FairPhone does. I care about general repair-ability of all tech and what benefits that has for flexibility, affordability, and competition in the economy and for the end user.

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