Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore
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Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
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Cool. How about a repairable phone with a headphone jack? I'll be a day one buyer.
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Modular ports would be great. I’d love to have two USB ports on a phone rather than a USB and headphone jack.
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I'm pretty sure that a USB hub would work at least on Android, giving you as many ports as you want.
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Repairable, open phone, you can load whatever OS you want. A phone that is more akin to a computer than a smartphone. A pinephone, but better.
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If you don't care about 3.5mm a FairPhone comes pretty close to that description.
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Why not just use type c headphones?
The 3.5mm thing has always baffled me, it feels like complaining your pc doesn't have a VGA port, except the thing you connect costs like a fiver
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Just replace my perfectly good $200 headphones that work in my (old) phone, my Switch, my 3DS, my laptop, my iPod, and my work phone.
It's so simple!
Seriously, even if you don't use it, why are you so against others having the choice? The headphone *jack was the standard for decades for a reason. If my phone is low on power, I'd like to be able to charge it without disconnecting my music/podcasts...
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At the time, there weren’t really many good options for replacement devices.
Using the charging port means listening to music and charging at the same time wasn’t possible.
Now we have split-cable dongles for power banks, and we have wireless charging when possible. It’s better but it’s not great; both have downsides, and accessories are more $.
Do they make type C headphones with a powerbank in them? Do I want a lithium battery that large on my head?
There aren’t many upsides for the consumer or the environment. Still seems to me like this isn’t even a lateral move. Internal components have gotten smaller and more efficient since, so that space could be reclaimed. I really don’t need my phone to be that thin, a phono jack next to the charging port would be just fine. The only real downside might be waterproofing but if you can make it work for the type C port…
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A Framework phone with 2 modular Framework sockets would be amazing. I don't care if it's thick. Make it repairable and support Linux Phone OSes like postmarketOS and I would absolutely buy it.
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Surely they are aiming for a repairable and modular smartphone eventually. That's going to be super hard to do. My guess is their next form factor will be a tablet.
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Tablet is almost free, just don't have a hinge and have a touchscreen. Release as Chromebook, it will run Android applications
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Arm machines that are repairable to compete with Apple would be very cool in my opinion. Maybe team up with an integrator like sys76. Could be very cool. I’d personally line up to buy.
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Would love it if they just had a shell that takes single board PCs
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You can run the mainboard outside of the chais in an external enclosure.
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Pine64 has a laptop that's essentially that. The SBC inside could pretty easily be swapped.
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i just cant escape the headphone jack jihadists even in this thread
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As long as the company itself doesn't become greedy and doesn't change it's mission & vision i always support it
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I'm waiting for them to offer a chassis to convert their laptop parts into USFF PCs. Reusing old parts after an upgrade is pretty attractive. I think they mentioned this a while back, I've been waiting for it to happen.
I'd also like to see a thunderbolt or oculink GPU bay part that would enable eGPU use with their machines.
And if we're wishlisting top facing speakers would be 🤌
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Didn't cooler master come out with one a little while ago?
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Ah, I guess they did - thanks!
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I thought they already offered 3d print models, you can just print out and presto?
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Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period.
Patel won’t say — I only get the barest hints, no matter how many different ways I ask.
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I want one with an e-ink display. That way I can swap out the e-ink display when I need to for a proper display. That wouldn't work on a normal laptop but should work for their uniquely modular design.
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I'm curious to see where they go next. A lot of modern consumer electronics have repairability and upgradeability problems, but I also wouldn't expect they'd be able to crack into the phone market as easily as the laptop market, so presumably there's some more niche target they have.
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Please let it be a smart TV.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
That’s one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding — it wants to expand beyond the laptop into “additional product categories.”
Framework CEO Nirav Patel tells me that has always been the plan and that the company originally had other viable ideas beyond laptops, too.
Framework might choose an “equally difficult” category or might instead try something “a bit smaller and simpler to execute, streamlined now that we have all this infrastructure.”
(Patel recently suggested to Jason Carman that Framework might adapt its marketing to reach more everyday audiences.)
The company’s $9 million seed round paid for the original 13-inch laptop design, which has carried on for three generations of components.
Today, Framework has about 50 employees, and it plans to expand to 60 before the end of the year, with “a bit of additional team growth” in 2025.
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I'm sure a Framework phone is at least an idea for them to produce. Definitely an extremely difficult challenge. It would be nice if it allowed for removable RAM, but it could be hard due to SODIMM being relatively large or due to RAM being put on SOCs. I imagine it shouldn't be too much to ask for removable storage at least, given how small NVME drives can get. Upgradable SOC/motherboard is a must.
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It would be nice if they partnered with fairphone.
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Do they offer touchscreens for the laptops yet? I’ve been waiting for that to get one, I won’t get a laptop without it.
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This nonsense company is too expensive for regular people
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Yeah I had hoped they would aim for a bigger market reach
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This is my issue with Fairphone too. I love the idea and execution and I understand those things cause the product to be more expensive but twice the price to comparable products is just too steep for me.
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I have a MacBook for work. Can't wait to have a Framework as a personal computer.
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The next product should be a sustainable, not publicly traded company. If investors take majority ownership and IPO, Framework's perceived mission will evaporate quickly in the inevitable search for ever growing profits. I sincerely hope Nirav and Co actually give a shit about the repairable product and retain majority shares. If not 👉👌...