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Afair, they started running out of some Fairphone 3 spare parts around 2024

So "longevity" is actually about 5 years. Or less if you live in the USA.

https://us.fairphone.com/repairs

presumably longer if they were more popular and repair shops stock up on the parts. I assume most FP users are fairly tech savvy and would just purchase multiple components that are more likely to fail as a just-in-case (much like I do for bearings, headlights, and other small parts for my car)

That's 5 years longer than Apple.

With Apple, you can't repair it yourself, but Apple will repair it for much longer than 5 years.

Not even Fairphone can repair your phone if it's out of parts.

> With Apple, you can't repair it yourself

Generally with Apple, you can: https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair

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