I expect /e/OS and LineageOS ROM's will be released soon, around the time they start shipping. They work closely with both. Still Android, but AOSP based.

Edit. confirmed it should be shipped with /e/Os as a choice. https://twitter.com/deivei/status/1443579458531692561

I do somewhat agree but there's only so many niches you can cater to at once before you doom your product to obscurity and failure

True but the Fairphone company's core focus has been firmly on hardware & manufacturing sustainability and ethics, which I do respect.

Ideally I'd like open source, sustainable, ethical hardware along with an open source, user-controlled independent OS, but in today's world, 2 out of 4 ain't bad. And I can understand one company not wanting to spread their priorities too thinly trying to solve every problem at once.

Looking at the struggles of Pinephone and Librem 5 and the various Linux flavours available for them it seems to be a really difficult problem to get something that has a good UI, a good feature set, is fast, stable and has good power management.

How is this duopoly when atleast in Android the manufacturer can offer customisation as they see fit?