Over the past few months, we’ve fallen short in communicating with you about certain issues that you have been flagging on the forum, such as the long wait times for customer support and the long overdue Android 14 update for the Fairphone 4. We’re truly sorry about that. It was never our intention to leave you in the dark, but rather, to wait till we had something solid to share. However, saying nothing is not the way to go. We want to make this right. So we’re sharing this update to explain wh...
I own a FP4 and I’ve been on Android 15 for a while now, as I run iodéOS … To me it is astonishing how a thrid party OS can have better support than the first party one 😅
It does feel counterintuitive but it kinda makes sense since it’s probably a small dev team.
The third party OS is being dogfooded and its devs probably use it on a daily basis, making minor improvements, it probably has different people working on a port for their own device, etc.
For a company that’s selling products, their time is split between fixing issues in the current OS, and building the next version of the OS for new phones
I own a FP4 and I’ve been on Android 15 for a while now, as I run iodéOS … To me it is astonishing how a thrid party OS can have better support than the first party one 😅
It does feel counterintuitive but it kinda makes sense since it’s probably a small dev team.
The third party OS is being dogfooded and its devs probably use it on a daily basis, making minor improvements, it probably has different people working on a port for their own device, etc.
For a company that’s selling products, their time is split between fixing issues in the current OS, and building the next version of the OS for new phones