Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!
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Yeah, this shit has me moving to Graphene soon.
As far a I know you need a Google Pixel for graphene. So you would still be helping google.
LineageOS. It's less hardline on "the hardware must have these specific security features" than Graphene, and works on WAY more devices as a result.
Buy pre-owned.
I bought refurbished ans jnstalled graphene
I already have one but even if I didn't buying used FTW!
Also, Motorola is reportedly releasing a Graphene friendly phone (not that they're all that great either).
I've had 4 pixels and even the og Google Nexus. A graphine Motorola might be the last thing I need to fully ditch Google phones. I wish I could put graphine on my old pixel 4a 4g. It's got e/os now. The battery life is crazy good, but it still kind of just feels like an android phone anyway.
Assuming they buy it new. If you buy it used, no helping Google.
Wouldn't it create an incentive for the other person (the seller) to buy another phone from google?
Like if someone had to keep all my past phones, would they buy as many new phone?
If someone is selling the phone, I think in 90% of cases they've already bought a new one and migrated their data to it.
True, however the justification to buy a new phone while already using a 'perfectly good but older model', is that they know they will be able to sell the 'perfectly good but older model' for a good enough price.
Thus, this idea that buying a second hand pixel mean money does not go google is flawed.
Eh, I see what you're saying, but I think there's always going to be a market for second hand hardware. And what new phone they decide to get, which might not necessarily be Google, isn't going to be influenced by the purchaser, I don't think.
Unless you do like people with iPhones do and you still pay premium prices for used phones... that I could see incentivizing Google specifically as holding value becomes a reason to buy them, as is true with Apple. But I don't think eliminating the incentive for a second hand market altogether is really reasonably possible, personally. May as well pull a Google phone out of the ecosystem and deGoogle it. Who knows? Maybe you sell it yourself years down the line to someone needing a very cheap phone and end up introducing someone else to nonGoogle or Apple OS's.
I don't know a lot of people who wait to sell an old phone before they get a new one. Usually, they decide to sell after they already have the new phone set up.
Usually people calculate/justify the cost. Like if a new phone costs 1000 and the old phone can be sold for 750 (selling it before the new purchase or after doesn't matter) then the actual cost of the new phone will be 250.
But if we stop buying old phones from them, then they will have to bear the full cost (1000) and they won't be justifying their purchase like this.
You know what i mean right?