With five major OS ugrades and eight years of patches.

Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

  • Carobu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    10 months ago

    Why would anyone ever expect any company to provide more support than they provide in writing? They are still trying to make a profit and not supporting a more than 10 year old device is perfectly reasonable. They only shipped 60,000 of the thing and it’s got a GB of RAM. The second model, the 2 still has parts available ~9 years on. I’m really not seeing the issue here.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      10 months ago

      I have a feeling you did not read my comments. The second model does NOT have parts available, that’s just plain wrong. They’ve been out of stock for more than 3 years.

      And as for the why, that’s because not everyone is a capitalist piece of shit, and that’s exactly the image that Fairphone is aiming for, and therefore when they advertise for sustainability, not supporting old devices is a dumb move.

      Companies and people who put profit first are a cancer to this world.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      10 months ago

      If I pay about a 100% premium for the service, I expect service.
      FairPhone was always to expensive IMO.