There a pretty interesting take away here: Fairphone is a fairly small company with limited financial resources, yet they manage to support their device for 7 years. Why is it then that Samsung can't do 10 years?
Samsung or Google could support their device for 10 years, they just don't care because their financial incentive skews toward selling new devices. Which I suppose is part of reasoning for picking a Fairphone, you get use your device for longer, wasting fewer resources.
I doubt fairphone or framework will survive long enough to fulfill these promises. It’s a good bet for them to make. If they go under just write up a “sorry guys the world is mean and we meant well” apology page. If they succeed they’ll pass the job to some cs intern.
Fairphone is already 10 years old and getting more attention than ever, but I see your point, they are significantly higher risk than other high profile phone makers.
Samsung or Google could support their device for 10 years, they just don't care because their financial incentive skews toward selling new devices. Which I suppose is part of reasoning for picking a Fairphone, you get use your device for longer, wasting fewer resources.