Fairphone’s branding is almost non-existent. It’s certainly not the reason for delayed updates. Besides, Fairphone Software Support is excellent if you bought the Phone in 2015. I agree a phone sold today should have Android 8.1 and the guarantee to get P and beyond.
That’s nice, but also a tad bit ignorant. For many people fairness and money are both important. The FP2 is a quite expensive device for many people, myself included.
Yes are right, that would be ideal, and probably a good way to differentiate the price for FPs. However: Manufacturers like Apple or Samsung sell so much more devices, they can afford to have that product differentiation (and profit from it). For Fairphone, that overhead is probably simply to much: Imagine three devices with 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. Imagine the 256GB has more RAM to. It does require the company to not order one type of memory/ram but three. It requires them to have three different packaging, keep three different models in stock, handle returns and repairs for three different models. You get the point?
I do agree that a Fairphone 3, designed today, (for example) should have 64 to 128GB storage.
It on the market since late 2015, it’s been designed many months earlier, I suspect. So that makes 3 - 4 years.
Many nice ideas here, but others already explained why this is harder as it seems. 