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Cake day: January 1st, 2023

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  • Someone buys an expensive car. They say “I cant use the railway!” Are you going to tell them they’re wrong?

    Yes. Because they are.

    We dont know if they live next to a railway line. They’re also heavily invested in the car and unlikely to pay out for rail tickets.

    None of which indicates they “can’t use the railway”. It may not be their preferred travel method, which is fine (in the metaphorical sense), but to say they “can’t” use the railway is simply untrue.


  • OP said “the software and driver support isn’t there”.

    Someone replied and corrected them to explain the software and driver support does in fact exist.

    OP replied to say that what he actually meant was that it didn’t support the specific software and driver they wanted to use.

    Seems like a perfectly reasonable conversation.







  • CEO’s statement:

    We’ll probably do a Q+A on this sometime soon.

    1. We believe it’s essential that all of the software that people run on their computers be open to scrutiny by the owner of the computer.
    2. We believe that software developers should be payed directly by the people who use their software.
    3. We want others coders to be able to pick up and maintain abandoned projects into the future.

    We don’t have all the answers, but I personally am very unhappy with the state of open source software. We have billions of people running polished open source software on their Android and iOS devices with all sorts of nefarious hidden software attached by Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.

    So we’re not gonna just run with status quo. We want to win by letting the people be masters their computers once again.









  • I’m trying to point out that your “pro” of better fidelity doesn’t mean anything in a space where people aren’t using a lossless format

    Some people do, though.

    People are calling it a money grab move to not include a headphone jack, and I just don’t think that’s fair.

    It’s absolutely fair because there’s no other legitimate explanation for removing it while simultaneously introducing your brand new wireless headphones. Just like there was no other legitimate explanation when Apple or Google or Samsung did it.

    Fairphone’s entire brand is built around “sustainability” and they just shit all over it, so people are rightfully disappointed.