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I wish https://frame.work/ https://frame.work/ made a phone. I (and the world) need serviceable phones. I've replaced screens and batteries on phones so much mo
by matt_heimer 5y ago
I wish https://frame.work/ https://frame.work/ made a phone. I (and the world) need serviceable phones. I've replaced screens and batteries on phones so much more often than on laptops over the last decade. Sadly that's been coming to an end with how glued together everything is now.
A phone with a module slot to add a mini-jack, sd card, or hdmi out would be awesome.
- willis936 5y agoYou mean like Project Ara? If google couldn't make it profitable idk how anyone smaller could.
- cle 5y agoThere are lots of reasons smaller companies can follow up a behemoth and beat them, such as better timing / market conditions, less dysfunctional organizations, etc.
- judge2020 5y agoI fail to see how Google is dysfunctional, other than their culture of leaking stuff months in advanced.
- cle 5y agoEvery organization is dysfunctional to some degree, a smaller company that is less dysfunctional in the right way can easily beat behemoths. I'm not making any sort of claim about Google's degree of dysfunction.
- KingMachiavelli 5y agoThe extra cost and larger size of a Ara type phone may just make the product too niche for a company the size of Google to bother. Companies like frame.work, System 76, etc. show that smaller companies can successfully market more niche products.
- xwx 5y agoCheck out Fairphone; they do a similar thing but for phones. https://www.fairphone.com https://www.fairphone.com