Why does it have to be repairable?

I appreciate Fairphone's ethics but IMHO they took so long they ended up with a huge phone with 2013's specs which they'll now have to sell for another three years to make any sense of the 'repairable' goal.

Usually I keep a phone for about two years and then buy another. That works out cheaper than a Fairphone. If it's a mainstream phone, the parts are usually available from ebay for a lot less than Fairphone charge too.

I don't mean that as slight on Fairphone. What they're doing is how it should be instead of the disposable world we have now where I can email China from a pub in Yorkshire and have companies selling me gadgets with my name on in 30 minutes. But that's what it is and it's why nobody makes phones in Europe anymore.