Oh I can see the refresh rate difference too. I can't see the pixel density difference.
avidamoeba
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Mid-tier or any tier loosely defines a few components. Perhaps the most important being CPU performance, GPU performance, camera performance and screen quality.
There's probably 1% of use cases that I subjectively encounter in my daily life that hit a CPU bottleneck on my old Pixel 6. If you're like me, then CPU performance has stopped being important a few years ago. CPU power efficiency on the other hand is important because it's reflected in battery life.
If you're like me and don't play 3D games on your phone, then GPU performance isn't important either.
Camera performance on the other hand is a big one for me and the Fairphone is definitely not top-tier there.
Personally I don't care much about the screen so long as its color calibration is decent. I use my Pixel in 1080p, 60Hz to save on power and I don't see the difference in pixel density between 1080p and 1440p or larger resolution screens in the 6" size band.
I was comparing the Fairphone 5 to the Pixel 8 prior to buying a phone this year and went with a Pixel 8 specifically because of its camera performance advantage. If I didn't care that much about that, I'd have bought an FP5. Both of these devices are going to be used for 5-7 years and the FP5's maintenance cost is significantly lower.
- Raspberry Pi 4 + TP-Link UE300, w/ OpenWrt
- Netgear G308 switch, any GigE switch would do
- Ubiquiti AC access point, second hand from eBay
Supports gigabit speeds with SQM (QoS) over Ethernet and up to 400Mbps over WiFi in its current form.
In my book the only comparable device is the Pixel. It's got a 7-year support life, it's got parts via iFixit for the same period, it can be used with alternative OSes and the software support lifespan transfers to those too since they use the same AOSP base and hardware binary blobs. It's harder and more expensive to repair than the Fairphone so from repairability it's definitely behind it. For example a screen replacement for a Pixel 8 seems to be in the $300 territory.
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Yeah that makes sense. The success rate might fall off a cliff in more complex software projects. E.g. applications that require designs beyond 10 UML boxes with hundreds of thousands of lines, especially not written in JS/Python.
Web/full-stack development?
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How much did you pay yourself?
This sounds fishy. Very fishy. The Chrome team making another OS kind of fishy.
Sure it is. It doesn't change the monopoly position. The real question isn't whether this is a monopoly but whether it's being abused. E.g. imagine if Google charged 99% fee on any sale via the Play Store. Or if Google disallowed alternative methods of payment but their own for any app distributed on the Play Store.
I find the emergent trust towards Apple over the last few years quite amusing. It's as if people collectively forgot Apple was the bad company in the mobile space.