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Which part of “at some point” and “might” was unclear?
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You have heard of an App now.
I’m not happy with Fairphone being unable to further source bottom modules either. And I’m very not happy with Fairphone not instantly committing to actively find sustainable ways to help users to make something happen themselves, e.g. by publishing schematics or something.
But it’s not as if all of a sudden all working bottom modules out there are disappearing. Not being able to buy them in an online shop is not where anybody needing one wants to be, for sure, but for a while there will still be second hand options out there.
And again: Not every Fairphone 2 user needs a new bottom module.
This is not an Android 9 thing (not even an Android thing) and you know it.
Any update can go wrong. State of the software industry.
If this concern would outweigh the benefits of updates, almost everybody with a Fairphone 2 would still be on Android 5 (or perhaps 6 with batches sold later) .
That would be awesome (for the fact in itself) and a little concerning (for an obvious lack of awareness) considering
… or longer, you might want to count that again 
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Also, while it doesn’t help those who are frustrated, there’s also the other side … example …