I just came across a specific video and I remembered your comment. This whole video is good but you can start watching from 8:42 and 10:49 marks since you requested for a timestamp.

https://youtu.be/Z0DF-MOkotA?si=fvqW4_rqwnKfsuVz&t=522

And if you have 24 minutes to spare here is another video with packed full of examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8

All major laptops and most of the smartphones (including the iPhone) are made in China. Are you worried about CCP backdoors in those devices?

Your link mentions Fairphone 3 and 4. They had regular mobile chips by Qualcomm that are not LTS. But Fairphone 5 comes with a Qualcomm QCM6490, which is not mentioned in the page you linked.

But you aren’t paying 1000. you pay nearly half that.

Charging the battery to only 85%

I wish all phones had this.

I don’t know of any other Android devices that will get updates for that long.

Fairphone has support for 8 years (5 years OS + 3 years security updates) starting this year.

But Pixel’s aren’t software locked like Apple. So you should be able to get almost anything repaired by a third party repair shop.

Check out Louis Rossmann’s video on it. According to him banking apps and Google services work just fine.

If it weren’t for Samsung crap like pre-installed Facebook and other bloat, unremovable Samsung apps etc. I’d go for one because I really like Dex, the fact that they put latest hardware available in their flagship etc. But considering things as they are, I’d choose the Pixel.

Won’t you have security updates for a while even OS updates have been stopped? If your current phone works fine, why not hold onto it a little longer?

Narrow point? The argument was that Google themselves don’t fix the smart watch, but Apple wouldn’t do such a thing. My point is that Apple does the same. How else would you want the counter arguments to be?

I presentes you Louis Rosmann, a subject expert in the field and one of whole world’s leading advocate on right to repair. His channel has investigations on thousands of right to repair violations and scams from companies. What else would you expect? You don’t want trust a random commenter on the internet but you also don’t want to listen to the leading advocate in this domain either? Then maybe use the search function in YouTube, Google or in ChatGPT because please don’t expect the said random commenter to spend their own time curating to spoon feed you information.

Apple does the same. Not a third party, Apple themselves will NOT repair some broken devices that have broke because of Apple’s design issues. Again, I urge you to watch Louis Rosmann. He has covered many instances of these.

You should give Google a hard time because what they are doing it is shitty. But Apple is not the answer. They do the same and more. The difference is that unlike Google, Apple won’t let someone else repair it either.

Can you share the Pixel 7 repairability score from iFixit? I couldn’t find one.

I did find a glowing review from Hugh Jeffreys, another respected repair channel in YouTube.

https://youtu.be/yIiRc97DOU8?si=SNEQ-0SMX9ksn2ak

think the difference is that Apple products can NOT be repaired

There, fixed it for you.

I recommend that you watch Louis Rossmann on YouTube. He regularly presents how Apple prohibit repairs by third parties either by adding software locks to simple parts, prohibiting parts contractors from selling spare parts, donating to anti-repair lobbying group among many other practices.

Migrating to Apple because Google didn’t repair a product is a very weird move. Both of those companies are to be blamed, but Apple much more in my instances.

That was the old support standard. From this year onwards, new models will be supported for 8 years (5 year Android updates + 3 year security updates).

l’d love to know more vendors who support their devices for longer than 7 years.

Fairphone

To be fair, telling customers to “just buy a new one” is standard Apple practice.

Fairphone is already doing it.