New futur user need info

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but extending the 'fair' part to the software doesn't seem to be a priority for them.

I am lost. What do you mean?

I don't believe it's fair when the phone you've bought has no way to prevent it collecting data about you and your use of it, often without your knowledge, and sending it to someone you don't want to have that data. That behaviour is baked into Google's app infrastructure. The Fairphone 2 had the option to load Fairphone OS (essentially the AOSP port, so partly de-googled) instead of the Android it came with, and enough public information to enable a number of OS ports including LineageOS and ubports. If fairness on the software side was a priority then at the launch of the Fairphone 3 they would at the very least have been able to commit to a Fairphone OS release at some point, even if it wasn't ready just then. Instead they said they were "considering it", hence my conclusion that software fairness is not a priority for them.