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Sometimes I think about the fairphone and similar projects that face some sort of conflict with their user base, and I believe this is the great trouble with creating stuff for non consumerist people. For example, I love the concept of the fairphone, but will I buy one? Well, maybe in a few years when my current phone stops working and has no means to be fixed anymore. Mine is a low end device from 2020 that I repaired a broken screen earlier this year. It's a bit slow, but I mostly run foss apps with very little requirements, so I don't really care. Since the introduction of GSIs, android version obsolescence isn't much of a problem for the tech-savvy anymore. I siply don't have any plans of replacing it.
If I had to buy another one, I'd probably look for a phone exactly like the described in the posted image, and I also have those conflicts with the latest fairphone model. In fact, I'd probably buy the previous models. I don't care for a version number of manufacturing date, or any other number, I just care for the actual use value to me. But for a company to stay afloat in our economy, they must release stuff often, or will be labeled as "lacking innovation", and if they don't follow the direction of other brands, the frequent buyers might leave them. And this is exactly the problem of such products, because their target audience aren't the frequent buyers! If they try to make the frequent buyers happy, they will make the target audience unhappy, and vice versa.
As a matter of fact, When my phone eventually needs to be replaced, there's a good chance that I won't even need to buy another, because some friend or relative might have an unused one lying around that they just stopped using because it's "old", and I will gladly give a second life to it. It's hard to compete with a sea of disposed stuff in good conditions.