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GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Could you imagine if apple created a Sub, where they made grapheneos iphones? Google would lose billions

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think you are harshly overestimating how many people use GrapheneOS or even care about what it stands for.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS is used by people in danger of being silenced, e.g. journalists

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, by all of them? Whats the percentage of journalists in all android users? Thats still a minority.

Look, I am not arguing against the use of it. Just people try to paint a picture like this is being used so widely when likely 95% of users haven't even heard about it.

[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 6 points 4 months ago

95% is being generous too. I'd be surprised if even 1% of users know what GrapheneOS is. Tech-savvy people vastly overestimate the general public. Like how using an ad blocker is common sense to all of us, yet some 2/3rds of the world likely don't.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Many would just buy because it's made by apple yk

[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 0 points 4 months ago

If somebody is buying a phone just because it's made by apple, they were never going to buy an android in the first place. Google would be entirely unaffected by this.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS goes against everything Apple stands for, how does this even make remotely sense?

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You know that it began as a joke?

[–] killingspark@feddit.org 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would unironically buy a gos iPhone. Like not the newest shiniest but older iphones become reasonable pricewise

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

They make pretty good hardware and the fact that there aren't too many different configurations is a plus when it comes to software support. GOS iPhone would be awesome. Unfortunately never going to happen :(