It’s a funny state of the world that the flagship hobbyist “open source” develop...

Iulioh · 2025-11-03T12:45:22 1762173922

i guess that you have to make compromise somewhere

The Fairphone 5 used a QCM6490, a qualcomm industrial chip with a 10y support timeline

The Fairphone 6 uses a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 with ane stimated 3-4 years of support

At least for the 5 the compromise was motivated, in the second case i just don't feel like the low performance is a worthwhile compromise.

beeflet · 2025-11-03T12:55:48 1762174548

perhaps the idea with the fairphone is to make the motherboard reverse-compatible with previous models, like framework? They changed the naming scheme

pjmlp · 2025-11-03T13:33:47 1762176827

Just like the Linux kernel has plenty of contributions from the companies that get as much hate as possible from FOSS communities.

Turns out there isn't adoption success without compromises.