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  • To add to that, Fairphone is also regularly criticized that they’re struggling to keep up full support for devices that are just a few years old. But unfortunately most of their issues are not their but their suppliers fault. Once the manufacturer of a specific component stops Firmware support for that component, it gets really hard to provide fixes and support once firmware-related issues arise. So that’s more of a general smartphone-industry-problem, in that the life cycles of the ‘big players’ are much to short, giving hardware-manufacturers an incentive to stop firmware support for older components quite quickly.

    I guess we have to differentiate between issues that Fairphone has control over, and issues that Fairphone is simply not big enough to solve on it’s own.