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The only concrete information is that they raised $18m. Nothing about what they will be working on other than laptops. > After five years building laptops, wha
by lioeters 3y ago
The only concrete information is that they raised $18m. Nothing about what they will be working on other than laptops.
> After five years building laptops, what might Framework add to the portfolio? Patel won’t say — I only get the barest hints, no matter how many different ways I ask.
> He won’t even say if they’ll make less or more of a splash than laptops. Framework might choose an “equally difficult” category or might instead try something “a bit smaller and simpler to execute, streamlined now that we have all this infrastructure.”
- qzw 3y agoObviously $18m isn't enough to do a credible modern phone that's modular. Google couldn't bring one to market after investing probably at least an order of magnitude more in Project Ara. Plus the OS would be an even bigger challenge. So it must be something simpler and leverages some of their existing investments and know-how. But since this is VC money, the addressable market also needs to be big enough to be interesting. I'm thinking a modular version of the Steam Deck.
- retrochameleon 3y agoI have a steam deck and I'm already pretty satisfied with it though. It's reasonably repairable, the devs seem to listen to the community, and it's already a linux-based device I can essentialy do whatever I want with.