Fairphone 3 should be an Android One device

Of course Android One is developed by Google; all Android versions are.
Android One is just a version (some call it a ‘skin’) that relieves the hardware manufacturer of the laborious job of maintaining the firmware. All updates are rolled out directly by Google (compare it to how Widows works). Using this all parties can do what they do best: FP making the hardware and Google the firmware (including updates & security patches).

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