| ▲ | zx8080 6 days ago |
| I'm not going to buy Pixel feeding Google further with my pennies just to use GrafeneOS. |
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| ▲ | fzorb 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Well you can always buy second hand/refurbished. |
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| ▲ | rollcat 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Viability of second-hand still drives market demand, as people have an incentive to buy devices that have resale value. The counter-argument is that otherwise this device will become e-waste. This is still a conundrum, but "don't give your money to Google" remains the active topic here, so... | | |
| ▲ | hellojesus 5 days ago | parent [-] | | True, but grapheneos only supports Pixels because of the unlocked bootloader and hardware security. If more and more people adopt Pixels solely to install Grapheneos, it may drive other hardware manufacturers to offer a device that meets Grapheneos' requirements, and then they can bank on grabbing almost all of the PixelGrapheneos market share, or at least the fraction which actively wants to avoid google (which I suspect is at least 75%). |
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| ▲ | immibis 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe you should buy good devices from any vendor, and the market will do what economists say it should do, and keep making those devices. (As if!) |
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| ▲ | preisschild 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| But Google is one of the rare Android smartphones vendors that allows you to install a custom operating system, while still allowing the same security as with the default one (ie allowing bootloader re-locking with a custom key) |
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