>>123363You asked lmao
Why are you so angry?
>>123684>>123717Are you guys unaware that you don't represent the majority of consumers? Normies want "big screen" and "thin computer" and nothing else. They will just buy whatever gives them the most social points.
Framework is neat, but at the end of the day, it's just more gimmicky consumer-junk designed to be a fashion statement. They're just appealing to "tinkerers", because they realized that people LARPing as computer nerds are an unexploited market. For example, their desktop line is an absolute joke.
There's more to "repairability" than just being able to take it apart and buy parts (albeit that is a big hurdle for some products). Framework laptops are "repairable" but at the cost of a greatly overpriced ecosystem (For the cost of one of their laptops you could've bought multiple old thinkpads, for example) and there's more to repair-ability than just being able to take it apart and having the company sell you spare display hinges. The build quality is supposedly pretty mediocre, especially for the price. You're also fucked for spare parts when the company inevitably keels over because their volume is shit compared to something like IBM or Lenovo which shit out millions of thinkpads for enterprise use which can all be cannibalized for parts and the Chinese factories keep making off-brand spare parts because they have a ton of tooling and leftover stock with loads of demand for parts from nerds with thinkpads. That said, for what it's worth, framework is certainly doing better than something like ARA/Phonebloks.
I realize that a lot of the "right to repair" shit has people dogpiling against modern consumer electronics which are difficult or impossible to open up with firmware that refuses to accept new parts, but the solution to that isn't a violent reaction in the other direction, but to reform product demand. People love to shit on manufacturers because they think "the consumer" is people like them (individuals, home users, etc.) but the real force behind the "thinner and lightweight" trend is enterprise users. It is the "big companies" at fault, but it's not the manufacturer; it's the procurement b
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