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Kind of a ridiculous take that ignores reality given that they’ve been selling out fast. How’s that possible if nobody ia buying them?
I bought one lmao
This article is bullshit…
compares framework to
Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus,
“strange: it doesn’t compete.”
“strange: my local burger shop won’t compete with mcdonalds.”
“strange: the super market around the corner doens’t have as high sales as unilever. perhaps people don’t like local food.”
“I’m just asking questions!”
I bought two
Oh, so you’re the reason they are sold out…
I’d buy one if I needed a laptop, but my current laptop still works just fine. its not my fault that a $500 laptop from 6 years ago came witn 16GB of memory and a 4.20 GHz Intel chip that can do literally everything I need a laptop to do today.
or maybe i should just buy stuff to prove a point.
Same boat here. My workplace gave me my old laptop when they upgraded me. It’s not great, but I don’t need it for much. Just browsing the internet.
Yeah my next laptop will be a framework, coming from Apple currently.
Wrong
Almost no one can afford one*
If they drastically lowered the price, a ton of people would buy them, and it would pay out much faster than having “$9999” and waiting for a few people to pay off their investment -_-
They can’t really drastically lower the price without production at large scale. And in current environment even the biggest corps can’t get favorable deals.
Also while, they are not price competitive in direct comparison, once you factor in that you can just upgrade GPU or CPU without needing to buy a full new laptop the next upgrade cycle it suddenly becomes very price competitive.
Good points
Plenty of people can afford them, and they sell out of the inventory for years every time they release a new product.
Them selling out of stock doesn’t mean everyone who wants a laptop like theirs can afford one. It simply means that they have met the manufacturing quota to fulfill the demand they do have.
Their products aren’t available in brick and mortar stores, therefore aren’t subject to price fluctuations and sales, and can’t be purchased on e-retailers like Amazon.
It’s quite possible that if people could walk into a best buy or microcenter and buy a framework laptop more people would but even at microcenter they seem to be thin on the ground and that’s the only retail store I’ve even heard about who’s selling it.
Them selling out of stock doesn’t mean everyone who wants a laptop like theirs can afford one
LOL of course not. No one said or suggested such a thing.
