Continuing the discussion from Future Android version for the Fairphone with an Unofficial Community Poll:
Which would you prefer Fairphone to do:
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Feel free to leave comments as to why you have selected your above choice
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If you mean that āA full Fairphone developed OSā will be open source, then I voted for 3, otherwise I would vote for 2
@Lidwien - have updated to say what I actually meant to say. Option 3 is the least likely because of the size of FP and their team, but itās interesting to see what the community are looking for
@Chris_R Just what you say.
I would prefer option 3. But I know that itās more likely to expect option 2.
Taken in account that making a full Fairphone developed OS is costing to much resources.
Iād leave option 3 out, considering how impossible that is for Fairphone. You lose votes in a āwonāt happenā void, which would be worth more when cast on one of the other two options.
Anyway, Iād prefer a continuation of Android upgrades. Itās a proven platform that wonāt go away anytime soon. This means longevity for the platform (continued development), broad app developer support and a large amount of knowledge on the platform available online.
Alternatives like Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS still have to prove their worth, most notably in app developer support. Just see how badly Microsoft was (is) struggling with this for Windows Phone.
I voted for option 2, but I strongly prefer an Android based OS like Cyanogenmod because of the variety of possibilities and compatibity to Android app stores.
I chose option 3, but what I meant is: Fairphone would do well to build a 100% free/open source Android on top of the āvanillaā Android Open Source Project stack.
Alternatively, option ā2ā might be an option with Ubuntu Touch or Replicant. But Iād very much like to see it become really 100% free and also not include any proprietary firmware.
Iād love to have Cyanogenmod as the standard OS especially for the WhisperPush feature. That way all Fairphoners would have a secure and free messaging service preinstalled.
This totally.
MAYBE in the future if Fairphone mentally takes up and thereās a need to do ābetterā than what is already out.
In the meantime, option 2 would be cool. Even if keeping 1 as an option after 2 would be even better I think.
Iām primarily interested in option 1 because Iām heavily invested in the Android eco-structure and Fairphone coming with Android was one of my big reasons for purchasing. Iād be okay with a Cyanogenmod version so long as I still had access to all of the apps and widgets Iāve purchased but Iām a little concerned about the phone straying too far away from vanilla Android if it costs us access to things like the Play Store and Google Apps.
Giving the choice to the user would be best. I have a couple of paid androids apps (mainly games I donāt use) but Iād rather get rid of Google altogether than keep thoseā¦
I am frequently in discussions (and not at all sure myself about the best choice) concerning the values embedded in the fairphone project and the need to maintain control about my personal information. In my view of modern society, these are both very very critical issues.
My choice so far has been for an open source software smartphone (first a Nokia N900, and now a jolla). Both of them worked really well for me.
As a consequence, it seems to me totally obvious that sailfish (the open source jolla OS), which is being ported to more and more recent smartphones and tablets, should be the primary OS for the fairphone.
I realize this may need some design choices for chipsets and things (or driver development), and I cannot judge how large these problems are.
But I repeat: nothing seems to me more obvious than this.
Well im not sure Jolla should be THE primary OS yet, but i agree they are a good fit. Maybe Jollashould be included in the Poll and Firefox OS and Cyanogenmod seperated, because CM is still in the Android Ecosystem and you are free to install GApps, while Firefox OS is not. Btw: Currently i would prefer Firefox OS over Jolla.
The longer i think about it, i would prefer the following choices given it is unrealistic and not useful to develop an own operating system for Fairphone.
Let me just say that if Fairphone would switch away from an Android based OS (AOSP based or something like Cyanogenmod) then I can throw my phone in the garbage bin and buy a new one.
Iām just so heavily invested in Android right now that switching to a different OS would be a pain, especially if itās an immature OS like Firefox OS.
I do absolutely agree with @Jerry.
Switching to a completely different plattform would be a pain for most of the users.
This kind of post is the reason why we should totally abandon āclosedā solutions, especially Google. 
Otherwise, things will NEVER change and evolveā¦
Closed or not, youād have the same problem with any platform.
If youād be totally invested in Firefox OS, then you couldnāt easily make the switch to something like Ubuntu Touch either. For starters, your apps simply wouldnāt work anymore.
Apps are just apps. If thereās a need on an OS, it will be filled by an app that does the same as another on another OS.
And if you willingly put everything somewhere, itās your own fault anyway. Anyone should know that when they start investing somewhere.
Maybe start investing in apps that are on several OS. Maybe encourage that before being imprisoned in a unique shopā¦
I chose 2, but really, I donāt want any specific OS; i want the ability to choose my own. TBH I thought this was possible when I preordered my first edition fairphone; there were mentions of it but they have disappeared.
While I am pretty happy with my phone, and pretty happy with the 'fairāness so far. I think fair could not only be supplier-side, but also to the users, and to me that means choice in software.
I really donāt care what the ādefault factory installedā OS is, as long as I can replace it. I would probably either go for Jolla or Paranoid Android, but Iād certainly take a look at firefoxOS too.