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GrapheneOS makers take a knife to this 'Google-free' phone coming to the US (Updated)
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I'm not sure if you just didn't read my reply properly or if you're engaging in bad faith here but you've just stitched the first sentence of a paragraph and half of the last sentence of a paragraph together as if they're related when they clearly aren't. One is referring to the non-existent issue (from Fairphone's perspective as clearly stated) of lack of GrapheneOS support, in direct response to you. The other is referring to the perceived security issues with Fairphone devices referenced in the article, and this is clearly stated in the first half of the same sentence which you decided to cut for some reason.
Nice strawman but I never said it was good. Again, respond in full instead of cherrypicking half a sentence. "Slow" updates compared to a Pixel is obviously not a problem considering Google has a minority market share and many people do not even bother to update their phone regularly. It is a fringe issue that is irrelevant to most.
It doesn't matter whether they're equal to GrapheneOS. Like I said, if you are new to this space and don't know anything then you think you need GrapheneOS because an influencer told you "iTs tHe bEsT oNe" and you looked at a comparison chart where it had the most green rows in its column. In reality many of its unique features and differences are well beyond the requirements of most people simply looking to reduce the amount of information big tech holds on them. Threat modelling exists for a reason but unfortunately many people burn out and return to big tech because they listen to bad advice from morons instead of thinking for themselves.
These projects don't need to be identical to each other, and in fact it's actually very healthy for the ecosystem and movement if they have differing feature sets and goals. Your utopian dream of GrapheneOS having a market monopoly is a terrible idea because it assumes the people in control are mentally stable and that nothing will ever go wrong, which we already know is a completely unrealistic assumption to have because Micay exists and Google just made custom ROM development much harder for Pixels.
Fairphone has zero interest in GrapheneOS and vice versa. Pretending that the only hindrance to this fictional collaboration is a lack of communication is delusional.