[wobbly_bush]

If more Android phones provided longer support, it would be a reason for a lot of people to move back to Android from iOS.

[alphanullmeric]

iOS is still pretty far behind android, apart from being faster and looking nicer. Bad notification system, bad keyboard, no split screen mode, inability to turn off animations, no proper cellular data tracking.

[stonekyx]

> apart from being faster and looking nicer

And less crashes, longer support, better security (imo). I wouldn’t call that “far behind”, but more like just personal preference. These points matter much more to me than the inability to turn off animation.

[Tagbert]

I’m sure those things matter to some people bit they don’t seem to matter to a lot of people. Readers on HN are most definitely not typical.

[hulitu]

And you can't turn off wifi and data for Apple services which means Apple spies you all the time.

[jdmg94]

* press F to doubt *

[dngray]

What I'm surprised to not see here is no mention of firmware updates. The Fairphones still use Qualcomm SoCs which only receive 2Y firmware updates.

I wonder how they get code to "Qualcomm closed-source components".

That means only the software side would be receiving the 7 years. Seems I'm not the only one who has wondered that https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1444035302822223872

tbh, seems like false marketing, Samsung and Apple support their SoC firmware for that full support period.

Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26593274