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Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US (www.wired.com)
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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Having worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that phones do break due to user error also in the first few years. Screen breaks, phones are dropped, charging ports are subject to user violence…

Having not worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that is pretty much exactly what I wrote up there.