The President of the Signal Foundation (Meredith Whittaker) has commented on this in this podcast episode. Skip to 1:05:45.

People that don’t have quark are simply uncultured barbarians.

Sorry.

One word: Idiocracy.

From now on whenever I talk about Android with Google Play Services I’ll refer to it as the “shit sandwich OS”

There is an official subscription called Fairphone Easy being offered in the Netherlands exclusively. For other European counties there’s Commown, but it’s pretty expensive.