Can Fairphone survive the US market

Skyrocketing RAM prices put a spotlight on product longevity and repairability, which makes this a particularly apt time for Fairphone to launch its first smartphone sold directly in the United States. Today, David Imel talks to CEO Raymond van Eck about the Fairphone 6+, the company's goals of user-repairability and ethically-sourced materials, and what place AI has in the future of Fairphone.

Further reading:

• ⁠Read Tim Cook’s final message to Apple staff as CEO⁠

• ⁠Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic⁠

• ⁠Google capitulates in Trump’s attempt to rename Lake Ontario.⁠

• ⁠MapQuest downloads surge after refusing to rename Lake Ontario.⁠

• ⁠MapQuest knows this whole thing is ridiculous.⁠

• ⁠Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US⁠

• ⁠The new Fairphone 6 Plus gets a perfect repairability score.⁠

• ⁠The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US)⁠

• ⁠This environmentally conscious smartphone is finally coming to the US⁠

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