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de-Googled Fairphone 4 coming to US is rare good tech news for the privacy conscious. (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nice to see a mainstream option de-Googled in the US.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think the real reason is that they buy off-the-shelf parts and don't have money to design and manufacture a custom motherboard. And off-the-shelf parts more often than not, tend to follow market trends.