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Everytime I see Fairphone mentioned whenever there's news about GrapheneOS I'm confused as to why people keep on conflating both when they obviously have very d
by jasonvorhe 5d ago
Everytime I see Fairphone mentioned whenever there's news about GrapheneOS I'm confused as to why people keep on conflating both when they obviously have very different goals.
- Timshel 5d ago? Not conflating, just we want a phone with both goals ...
- pyaamb 5d ago+1
- andrepd 5d agoI think it's obvious that the target audience has a huge overlap...
- gpvos 5d agoHN readers aren't a huge demographic.
- foolin 5d agoA huge overlap in two groups would obviously be at most 100% of the smaller group.
- SecretDreams 5d agoIs there a huge demographic for grapheneOS and/or fairphone? Let alone one that doesn't overlap with the archetypes that post here?
- ntnsndr 4d agoPoster said huge overlap, not huge audience:) But I agree with the overlap. I use e/OS partly because I can run it on a Fairphone. I'd love to try Graphene.
- illiac786 5d agoI wouldn’t say obvious, no. It’s what I observe, yes. But I have some doubt about my observations scaling up to a valid statistics. Lots of folks out there are not techies yet do care about the environment. I can’t see them caring much about grapheneOS, but maybe I’m wrong.
- t0bia_s 5d agoEvery time Fairphone release new device I check width size. Still waiting for small device.
- topaz0 5d agoI wonder if Meta pays phone manufacturers under the table to keep their size large
- armadyl 5d agoThe overwhelming majority of consumers just prefer larger screens (myself included). People seem to forget that Apple releasing the Mini was them listening to the minority and the sales numbers if it were poor versus the rest of the lineup. And why would Meta even do that?
- topaz0 5d ago- facilitate the infinite scroll - remind you that the phone is in your pocket, to initiate the infinite scroll
- armadyl 5d agoSorry but this is maximum level conspiratorial thinking. Meta probably has some created some incentive for OEMs to make larger screens by way of people liking content consumption but the idea that they’d be paying for that is ridiculous lol.
- topaz0 5d agoI forgive you I guess
- preisschild 5d agoI find reading ebooks and long texts like wikipedia a lot more enjoyable on my 6.8" AMOLED panel than on the smaller screens i've had before. You can also doomscroll on smaller screens.
- Brian_K_White 5d agoThe only one conflating anything is yourself. This is no great conundrum. There is simply a large set overlap. A lot of the people who care about one one, also care about the other. It's the same as Framework owners and Linux users. FW is not a linux laptop company. They didn't even barely say the word Linux initially. Their selling point was the repairability and configurability. Only after they had been shipping for a while it became unavoidable that a huge fraction of their users were linux and even freebsd users. Only after some time and only gradually they started providing a little bit of official acknowledgement and support for Linux. But repair parts and linux os don't have anything to do with each other! zomg why is everyone conflating Framework with a linux laptop company???
- blendergeek 4d agoI agree they are separate. What annoys me is that every time FairPhone has news, there are obligatory FUD comments about how people should stay away from FairPhone because they don't support Graphene.
- SkiFire13 4d agoBoth are for for different niches, but their intersection is relatively big.