Though they were warned about it when the restart project took a look at a prototype of the FP1 well before mass production started, see the post by @therob a few posts up [in the thread these posts originated] . Probably too late in the process to change anything though. So not malice, just poor design that lead to this - which is what one would expect when adapting an off-the-shelf “China-phone” model, as @fp1_wo_sw_updates wrote. Using an existing design, you get the life-expectancy of that design, which is why my impression is that most of Fairphone’s longevity claims for the FP1 were centered around spare parts being available (and the fact that they’re not at the moment is to do with a switch in distribution partners). This is presumably why the FP2, which wasn’t off-the-shelf, uses more components (more expensive to produce, but cheaper to repair).
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