• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Planned obsolescence was a big problem, but it isnt anymore.

    That’s so far from true I’m not even sure how to begin explaining it to you 🤦🏻

    Phones have software support for 7 years

    That might be, but the hardware is designed to wear out. They start to degrade after a few months, a year if you’re lucky.

    have had my current phone for nearly 4 years and it runs as fast as the day I bought it

    We kind of peaked with smartphones already

    Yeah, probably. If you weren’t wrong about planned obsolescence, I would probably still have the one I got before this one or the one before that.

    The Fairphone is great

    Yeah, I’m definitely sold on the phone itself. What makes me still hesitate is compatibility issues with certain apps that are absolutely essential to function in modern society and demand “genuine” (read: inside the corporate control of Google or Apple) hardware 😮‍💨