Hm? Compared to literally every other phone manufacturer out there. Fairphone is always months behind with patches, just look at your phone’s patch level. This is the main criticism software wise of the grapheneOS devs.
Software problems like bugs not being fixed for many months are also a major thing in this very forum, surely as a moderator you have seen plenty of those. So yeah, if anybody has ever looked at anything but fairphone with original ROM, than they know how bad fairphone really handles their software development.
But I guess you’re right, that’s surely not literally “everybody”, only a subset of ppl who have looked elsewhere.
The average user wouldn’t even know the difference and wouldn’t even care. Most phone manufacturers have their own highly customized Android flavor. GrapheneOS is way closer to the stock android - and to fairphone’s - experience than for example Samsung’s version.
I honestly believe the market for a secure and private phone out of the box is orders of magnitude larger than just another android phone (with bad software). Thing is, nobody ever dared to actually build and market one.
Except Apple who uses false advertising to position itself as a " privacy" company, which actually works for ppl wanting to believe that. For everybody else, there is no commercial solution.
Yes it is, no argument there. I imagine and wish for a world that has a sustainable, open, private, secure, and fair phone that I can really own and repair, that honors my rights for data sovereignity and the rights of workers. And of all the companies I have ever looked at, I strongly believe that fairphone is the only one capable to actually pull this of, if they were open to collaboration with security experts.
Now what’s so bad about that wishful thinking?