Well not if larger manufacturers made them I guess? Fairphone just doesn’t get the same prices even from the same vendors, if there’s any that overlap between say them and Samsung.
I think the idea is that you can make them but the large manufacturers actively choose not to, because being anti-consumer, anti-sustainability, and anti-repair is not a problem in their business model, it’s a core strategy of it.
Because they cannot bulk buy parts and hire engineers like how the larger manufacturers can.
So then… sustainable phones cost more?
It’s a matter of scale…
The why doesn’t someone at scale make sustainable phones?
Well not if larger manufacturers made them I guess? Fairphone just doesn’t get the same prices even from the same vendors, if there’s any that overlap between say them and Samsung.
It is a myth that being sustainable is why.
I think the idea is that you can make them but the large manufacturers actively choose not to, because being anti-consumer, anti-sustainability, and anti-repair is not a problem in their business model, it’s a core strategy of it.