Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2016, 22:20:17 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
it's not harsh - it's realistic. the evidence comes from their own forums, with people asking them for security updates... which they *COULDN'T PROVIDE* because they had based the Fairphone 1 around an "abandonware" Mediatek GPL-violating processor.
Of course, they made that mistake, but now they are delivering security- updates for the fairphone I.
https://www.fairphone.com/2016/06/30/fairphone-1-upgrade-to-android-kitkat-4...
.... all they had to do was ask people in the software libre community, "what's the best processor and design strategy to use which will help us fufill the ethical sustainable considerations that we hold dear".... they didn't do that... end-result: landfill.
Yes. But they do care about landfill: https://www.fairphone.com/2016/07/14/closing-the-loop-the-garbage-collectors...
Is there any other smartphone producer, which is doing that too?
This is another example:
https://www.fairphone.com/2016/04/22/from-the-factory-to-you-packaging-the-f...
why are _they_ offering it? why are they not providing full source so that people can do the updates themselves?
You are of course right, but they learned for the Fairphone II:
https://www.fairphone.com/2016/04/28/releasing-the-fairphone-2-open-operatin...
- they got 10 points on ifixit for the easy way to repair it and their
modular construction.
- the are using more conflict free minerals and there are better working
conditions in as with the great players.
fantastic. except they're not big enough to deal with the cartels in the LCD manufacturing in order to ensure that conflict-free minerals and manufacturing techniques are used there. it's a start though...
You too are not big enough to deal with the cartells, But as far as I understand it, there is nut much need to deal with them at this point. But, if you wanted to be shure, that the EOMA68-Card only used conflict free materials and was produced under acceptable conditions, which is an ethical aspect too, you you would have to go a long way. I think, Fairphone did not choose the right starting point. Your's seems to me a lot better.
http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/hybrid_phone/ lot happening in a very short amount of time. this proposed phone design has a hardware kill-switch on the modem. cuts the power entirely.
It would be great, if this could be come to life too.
Wolfgang