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This Week in Startups

Apple launches iCloud Private Relay + Framework’s Nirav Patel on customizable laptops | E1287

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In a short news segment, Jason describes Apple's new iCloud+ privacy suite (2:18). Then, Framework founder Nirav Patel joins to talk about making laptop customization great again (13:04)! They discuss the difficulty of raising VC for a consumer hardware startup, creating products for the "modding" audience, the environmental benefit of fixing products and more(24:16)!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, we've got an amazing show for you today.

0:03.1

We have Nirav Patel, who is the founder of Frame.work.

0:07.2

He previously worked at Apple.

0:08.7

He also worked at Oculus.

0:10.1

And then he had a great idea, which is,

0:12.4

why can't you upgrade your laptops anymore?

0:14.7

Well, he built a new laptop called the Framework laptop.

0:18.0

It is brilliant.

0:19.0

You can remove pieces of the laptop.

0:21.0

You can change the CPU, the memory,

0:23.3

and you can change the expansion cards.

0:25.4

These little chicklets that come in and out.

0:27.4

And I think this is going to be a revolution in laptops

0:31.6

and the ability for you to repair and update

0:34.4

and have a great experience with your laptop

0:36.6

for more than two years, which is what happens

0:38.5

with your Apple laptop, right?

0:39.5

You buy it two years later, it sucks, and it's slow,

0:42.8

and it's grinding.

0:43.6

You get the spinning wheel of death.

0:44.8

What if you could have a laptop where you open it up

0:47.6

and shake the battery out and change it and change the CPU?

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