I think it’s plenty exciting—GrapheneOS is by far the best option for a private and secure yet very usable mobile experience, so not being locked into Google hardware is great.
I think the best option to not be locked into Google stuff is to just get a global version Xiaomi or other Chinese phone. At least for most places in the world, where they’re sold.
You’re still locked in to Google’s Android operating system. Which will now only get a new open source release every 6 months.
My Fedora Linux PC gets updates about once a day. And Linux kernel updates are maybe every couple weeks to almost the latest kernel version. Most Android phones have a years out of date Linux kernel.
I feel like calling it “Google’s Android” is muddying the waters between AOSP and Google’s actual proprietary version of Android that comes with Google Play Services and such. GrapheneOS being built on the former is such a minor (though still valid) concern that it continues to be the first name in private/secure phone OSes for anyone who doesn’t have a nuclear threat model
It’s developed largely by Google. They control what features it has and doesn’t have, the same way they do with Chromium. It’s not minor in my opinion. Not really community-developed the way desktop Linux is.
I think it’s plenty exciting—GrapheneOS is by far the best option for a private and secure yet very usable mobile experience, so not being locked into Google hardware is great.
You mean Google software?
I think the best option to not be locked into Google stuff is to just get a global version Xiaomi or other Chinese phone. At least for most places in the world, where they’re sold.
You’re still locked in to Google’s Android operating system. Which will now only get a new open source release every 6 months.
My Fedora Linux PC gets updates about once a day. And Linux kernel updates are maybe every couple weeks to almost the latest kernel version. Most Android phones have a years out of date Linux kernel.
I feel like calling it “Google’s Android” is muddying the waters between AOSP and Google’s actual proprietary version of Android that comes with Google Play Services and such. GrapheneOS being built on the former is such a minor (though still valid) concern that it continues to be the first name in private/secure phone OSes for anyone who doesn’t have a nuclear threat model
It’s developed largely by Google. They control what features it has and doesn’t have, the same way they do with Chromium. It’s not minor in my opinion. Not really community-developed the way desktop Linux is.