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>are you seriously comparing billion-dollar companies with decades of presences with framework?
Why not? All I care about is getting shit done on the go. That's the purpose of my laptops. One with decent build quality and 3ish day turnaround times to ship stuff off and get it fixed is well worth a modest price premium vs. waiting over a month for a replacement battery.
I tried a framework for the novelty. My kid broke the hinges by picking it up by the screen. I spent 2 weeks waiting for replacement parts. Then the usb ports started dropping out. I spend another month waiting for a replacement board. A year or so later and the battery started acting up. It wasn't in stock, and there was no way to reserve/preorder one for when it came back in stock. After a week or two I put on craigslist and sold it to some neckbeard who then bitched at me because apparently the USB ports died again a week later.
The battery life fucking sucked too.
Meanwhile when my wife sat on my Dell and destroyed the screen I had it fixed and back in my possession in 75ish hours. It also doesn't break if I grab it by the corner of the screen to move it. Frankly, I don't give a fuck if you're not supposed to do that. People do it, and any laptop that cant handle a moderate amount of abuse is not fit for purpose.
>it's fine bro, just buy thousands of them bro, give them to your extended family or something bro
My company lets employees buy laptops and phones through them at volume pricing + some admin overhead. Even if I didn't have that option I'd cheerfully pay a few hundred premium for quick and painless hardware repairs, which is an option at literally all of the major vendors.
Framework doesn't have that as an option. Therefore it's not for anyone who values their time. If you're a poorfag who's time isn't worth more than Pajeet wages, then sure, I can see the appeal. Anyone with actual income buying a framework for anything other than the novelty is delusional.
