I just don't get why smaller OEMs don't seem to care about meeting Graphene's requirements.

GrapheneOS has 500k users and growing, and most GrapheneOS users would be more than happy to leave the Pixels because of Google's bullshit.

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microtonal 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Because most of them don't really design their own phones, but instead sell what (mostly Chinese) ODMs give them with some small customizations.

I don't know about ShiftPhone, but e.g. Volla just sells rebranded Daria and Gigaset phones, typically marked up by a few hundred Euros to sell some EU-made/privacy/degoogling dream. In reality they are just cheap phones that the ODM does not really care about with Linux kernel and firmware trees that haven't seen any (security) updates in years.

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palata 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh that makes sense. What about e.g. Fairphone?

	▲	microtonal 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mostly developed (both hardware and software) by their Chinese ODM T2Mobile. I think they probably have the sales volume where they could negotiate a compatible device with their ODM, but their priorities clearly lie elsewhere.