Yeah. Android seems like a bit of a dead end to me, has for a while. But GrapheneOS puts up a valiant effort making it tolerable, so I wouldn’t count them out quite yet. Only time will tell if they can overcome Google’s constant attacks on the open source ecosystem.
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I’ve been of a similar opinion for some time now such that I’ve been experimenting with Droidian on an xperia 5 that is now usable as a daily driver but (big BUT here), that is mainly because I’m already ungoogled in terms of my IT activities. Whether we like it or not the Android ecosystem is owned by google despite the claims to AOSP still being an open source project. The other big tech players such as Meta are always going to be on the screwgle side of the fence when it comes to the adoption of protocols, but who in their right mind without a spoofing phone signs up for a wotsapp account anyway?
For me ‘unandroiding’ has to be the next step and it’s not that difficult a step to take when you have already disposed of all the crap.
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after reading this entire thread, I really hope it’s Motorola.
most here maybe don’t know but, here in South America (at least where I live) if you’re not getting an iPhone (which is WAY too expensive) the only phone options available you can buy and get official support are: Samsung, Motorola and Xiaomi (I wanna say LG too but I feel they’ve shrink a lot recently) and honestly, this how it is in a lot of the world it seems.
While I’ve imported a Pixel 7a to run Graphene on, it wasn’t cheap (was still cheaper than flagship) and I only did this cause I’m serious about online privacy, but, if even people here (which I will assume all come from first world countries) complain about the pricing of Pixel devices, imagine here down in South America where people are severely underpaid. (and, I really wanna say it seems a lot of people outside Europe/North America/developed world are often forgotten on privacy talks ngl)
Regardless, I will only move after the support for 7a dies but, this is great news and let’s wait for more info in the coming future
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Where is this confirmed? The only thing I’ve seen is them saying it’s just the first Snapdragon that meets GOS’ standards.
Yea… this is what I was talking about and that’s not saying this is the SoC they’re going with necessarily. It’s far from a confirmation.