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Help the environment by not buying a new iPhone
- lightgreen 7y agoThis post makes an unfounded statement that fair phone is more env friendly because it is repairable. This might be true, and the opposite may be true: maybe fairphone is less env friendly because it breaks more often and requires a lot of spare parts. Maybe they produce more toxic waste during production of fairphone.
- wait-a-minute 7y agoTo be fair the post also says, correctly, that what's better for the environment is also using the phone that you already have. IE keeping it longer.
- cookingrobot 7y agoBut we should take into account there’s a market for used iPhones. When I last upgraded, I gave my old phone to someone who needed it and prevented them from buying another brand. If (theoretically) iPhones are better for the environment than competitors, that’s a net win.
- maxharris 7y agoThe Fairphone doesn't even come close to the iPhone 11, or even the iPhone X. No OLED screen. No advanced cameras. And the Fairphone has a tacky logo on the front of the device that screams, "I'm cheap!" And I say this as a person that would otherwise prefer the Fairphone. I think it's cool that it's repairable, but without offering something competitive with the iPhone 11 Pro, I just don't have any incentive to give up my iPhone 6S. I had the battery replaced a few months ago for $50, and it'll work just fine for me for years to come.
- ubu7737 7y agoThe basic premise of the article is "help the environment". If that is no incentive to you, so be it.