I don’t really know of any broken promises about the back cases, but:
I’m offering you a personal apology for the delays in production and the delay that was caused when the back covers arrived later than expected at our distribution center. Since we’re a crowdfunded project, we don’t have time to build up stock between production and delivery like most companies. Thus this uncomfortable time where shipments are later than expected and clear information is hard to get, especially during the holiday period.
This was in April:
Hello,
disclaimer I have not read the full thread.
For FP1 the gapps installer is something that just happened (some might call it a happy coincidence) . Secondly how root was implemented in FP1, specially the early releases was sub optimal(giving root access to anybody).
For FP2 we will provide different flavours of Fairphone OS(and certainly one without gapps). As of today I have not seen a signed contract to ship gapps so I can not even say anything about shipping with google apps.
As to the root and rootable discussion. The default shipping method for FP2 will be using a unlocked bootloader (e.g. users will be able to flash images and kernel, fastboot enabled) and the default image on the phone will use the current Android security model for protection (e.g. we will not “add” root in the shipped and supported installations ). For the alternative image (without gapps) we will be able to be more flexible and listen to what the community wants.
What we do not know yet is if this model will work for all the parties. We don’t know yet if we will also need ship FP2 devices with a locked bootloader.
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