It would be much more credible if they continued selling it. Stopping to sell it basically means they have a small stock of spare parts left and the commonly replaced parts like batteries and usb ports will probably going to be difficult to get soon.
We’re talking about a small company. Keeping your lineup manageable keeps your processes in check. Offering fewer things means less stuff to take care of.
You can still easily get one through retailers if you want to, but they argued that sales were down, so they phased out selling the device. Just like they did with older models, which they then continued to support for years. So I call bullshit: as long as they don’t officially stop supporting the fp5 I have no reason to believe they would as they kept their promises before.
I would agree with you if they were just a regular small phone design company, but the way things are going they are one bad device away from going out of business and even without that their support for older phones has been spotty at best, and I say that as a Fairphone owner.
It would be much more credible if they continued selling it. Stopping to sell it basically means they have a small stock of spare parts left and the commonly replaced parts like batteries and usb ports will probably going to be difficult to get soon.
We’re talking about a small company. Keeping your lineup manageable keeps your processes in check. Offering fewer things means less stuff to take care of.
You can still easily get one through retailers if you want to, but they argued that sales were down, so they phased out selling the device. Just like they did with older models, which they then continued to support for years. So I call bullshit: as long as they don’t officially stop supporting the fp5 I have no reason to believe they would as they kept their promises before.
I would agree with you if they were just a regular small phone design company, but the way things are going they are one bad device away from going out of business and even without that their support for older phones has been spotty at best, and I say that as a Fairphone owner.