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Apple iPhone 6 running Linux 6.13 and postmarketOS.
It's on.
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iPhones already have the longest software update cycle on the market (though many manufacturers are finally catching up), this could make a 7 year phone become a 15 year phone nowadays since the annual hardware changes are kinda meaningless. That’s ridiculous, in a good way. Of course it’s been possible for the many Android devices that support PostmarketOS for quite a while, but then those are phones that had way less original support and much smaller market share individually, so if this catches on, it could be even more impactful than Postmarket on Android phones.
@boonhet @poVoq actually fairphones have the longest software+hardware cycle on the market.
Do you mean they sell phones with the oldest hardware in them?
Because they sure don’t have the longest software support cycle, they only seem to be getting 4 major Android versions. The iPhone 6s and the original SE got what, 6 major iOS versions? Both OSes get annual major versions. And of course, in both cases you get security updates for a few years after the end of new major versions.
You also get lower end hardware with the Fairphone, so that might change your opinion on whether you’ll still want to run it 15 years down the line.
There is plenty good about the Fairphone, like its’ repairability and the fact that they do simply sell you parts, but otherwise, you don’t get all that much bang for your back. Anything that’s called “responsible” or “sustainable” is always going to cost more simply because you can’t pay your employees more without your phones costing more