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Most average phone users don't give a shit about bezels, weight and stuff, they just buy whatever is put in front of them. If Apple came out with a new iPhone that was heavier, thicker bezelled, slower, people would still buy it because the truth is, they don't compare anything or look into it besides "this is the latest".

Speed is such a none issue, all mid-range phones are plenty fast enough for the very large majority of people. Buying flagship phones with the fastest SoCs is pointless to them, they will never get value from it - they just buy them because they are the latest "best shit you need" and they cost a lot more than a Fairphone.

Now the value of replacing a battery on the fly (whether broken or just for more juice) would actually be a lot higher, people used to do that in the past. The ability to repair the phone yourself wouldn't really matter to most, as they usually just take their phones to a repair shop anyway, but the cost of the repair would be lower.

The Fairphone has a great mission, one that all phones should be going after. They are expensive for what you are getting in terms of specifications, yes, but the company isn't large enough to make them any cheaper without sacrificing the point of them in the first place. It's fine to not want one, but comparing them to flagship phones, the same way you would compare an S24 to an iPhone 15, is actually unfair. Not to say you can't critise it, I think the software is the weak point and some issues were clearly highlighted, not unfixable though.

If price wasn't a factor and you just handed them to average people to use, then they would most likely be satisfied and would find value in it.

Just shows the lack of knowledge LTT have really. They just dont understand Fairphone at all, or even how people use phones apparently...

If I have to contact support to do any mundane change to an account, my email usually begins with 'Delete my account'.

Ubisoft lost it after AC Brotherhood.

Just ignore the "triple A" industry and games are usually great. Lots of small passionate studios still pumping out quality stuff.

Its not AR, an AR headset is something like HoloLens, this is just a VR headset with your eyes on the front.

If they are, then this vision pro is truly extortion.

VR requires a bit of setup, which is off putting. I dont have the space to have mine out all the time, theres also a shortage of high quality games. Waiting on Valve to push the envelope again.

Most modern headsets have passthrough, its not some new feature. It is the part that Apple focused on though.

An overpriced VR headset.

It was a tongue in cheek, rhetorical question, regarding what I said before it.

I know, it was a rhetorical question given the stance they take on a lot of things always aligning with what Google wants.

I expected Mozilla to implement this, I don't know how they expect to get marketshare by just following in Google's footsteps every step of the way.
Is Firefox it's own browser or just Chrome with a different engine? Even Apple support jxl, well the decoding anyway.