I may recognise that there are some inconsistences around this. Fairphone goals are not security software and ciber-security market, but as a company who sell hardware has the responsibility of their products and services. I would encourage Fairphone itself to re-think about e/OS and marketing storytelling about “security and de-Google” phones since e/OS has already several problems to maintain their product. Myself as a non technology scholar see several inconsistences in keeping e/OS though.
We can implement exactly the same services provided by Murena in Android with Orbit ( which actually its the protocol used in Advanced Security App in e/OS) or Athena and others several alternatives. I highlight this because at the moment, there is no reason to pay any different price for having such a software included in Fairphones anymore ( this is my personal opinion of course).
What do you think about this ? It is debatable software OS and patches from Fairphone?
There never was, you always could and can just install e/OS or whatever you want. However not everyone can or want and thus pays the time needed to flash the system.
And this here must not be used for a Graphene OS discussion, we have topics for this
I’m going to bookmark the conversation and take a long read of it!
Regarding software pre-installed, as a non-technoboy (yet) and the prices I read the costumer were charged for ‘repair’ when an OS is not properly install, I preferred to bought the device with the installation in.
