These folk are as far from understanding what the man in the street ACTUALLY wants to buy, as the east is from the west.
This is an ego massage for a tiny fraction of a VAST consumer base of smartphone users, so they can feel “responsible”, and somehow sleep better at night. Guys, people just want to buy a phone and use it to get things done, and have the interface and mechanisms INVISIBLE to them (the best design is no design at all - it shouldn’t crow about what it’s able to do - the user should try something that feels inevitable, instinctive, and have it happen - this is called “iPhone”)
Whether or not (hint: definitely gonna be NOT) this becomes the norm, the average owner wouldn’t know about the inner machinations of their phone - this stuff is, and rightly so, abstracted away from the man in the street so that the experience is:
Pick phone up > tap “Mail” > tap “compose” > tap “Send” > put phone down and start cooking dinner. People have busy lives and have better things to do than have you burden them with virtue signalling nonsense like this. The onus is on the manufacturer to make their supply chains environmentally friendly - this is just another failed, tedious episode of the same marketing stunt (or a get rich quick attempt by the designers)
It’s all well and good making this stuff, but if it hasn’t caught on by now, errrrrr, helloooo?
https://www.androidpolice.com/the-fairphone-4-is-the-companys-sleekestlooking-product-yet/What a load of old nonsense.
PS: Normal people don’t care about the hippy dippy “open source” virtue signalling - they rarely would ever know what it means, and good for them - they want it TO WORK WELL, and they want and need superb support, and to know that they’re not the sole person in their entire life that owns this thing, so that someone can help them.
This is another load of cack.