Kinda, but also I checked the original announcement - they promised 5 years of software and hardware support. And they had spares for 7 years as they just stopped selling them like 3 weeks ago. For a phone they stopped selling in 2022 (after it launched in 2019). IMHO that’s a fair support time. Mind you - again that was 7 years ago when a 5 year software support was still groundbreaking as far as I recall.

I’d love it if devices lasted even longer. But with the current smartphone world I’m more than willing to hand it to FP - it’s been ‘fair’.

Hey would you be so kind and direct me to the place where Apple sells genuine spares for the 13 mini?

I’m not saying 5 years is a long time to support a phone - Apple does really well in terms of software support - I am saying having genuine spares available for that time is.

Fairphone already does pretty much what you want - keep spares available for an insane time. They don’t have spares for the 3/3+ anymore but for the 4 which was released like 5 years ago.

And we don’t know why the 6+ exists yet, it could be a simple stupid reason like Qualcomm deciding they don’t want to produce the old SoC for as long anymore.

Personally the fact that we can even get what is basically ‘just’ a mainboard upgrade for a smartphone does speak for Fairphone IMHO

I had more of a spectacle fighter / action fighter vibe with it.

Like Metal Gear Rising or something close to it. Honestly I’m pretty stoked for it - I mostly hope for a somewhat modern Onimusha 3 - I didn’t really get too warm with the Remaster of 1 'though so I’m not 100% sure.

Makes sense unfortunately. It was too good of a deal - 2 mainline games for 100€, when they now charge up to 80€ per title.

I’m honestly surprised it took them that long to kill it.