• Safeguard@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    If you can sell or give the old phone to someone else, they are also displacing a non-fair phone. So filling the market with fairphones (That are still supported) is a GOOD thing. And you are still supporting the company, and all the people they pay as well.

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      1 year ago

      In general though the best thing is to just stick with your current phone if you can. Every new phone still consumes resources to produce and probably replaces some other phone which then has to be recycled or might even end up in a landfill.

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        1 year ago

        Most people will switch smartphones anyway. Nothing you or I can do about it I’m afraid.

        Better we get then hooked on fairphone then.

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          Most people will switch smartphones anyway

          That’s the best case scenario, worst case scenario however you sell to someone who otherwise wouldn’t have switched. In that case, it’s still one more new phone. And who is guaranteeing that other people will actually use their Fairphone for its whole lifetime?

          Better we get then hooked on fairphone then.

          True, but I feel like selling your used Fairphone isn’t the solution to this.