A substantial amount of open source devs will probably just give up working on their projects if they can no longer be installed by most users.
That will also affect Graphene users.
Graphene will also only work until Google one day says “You know what… No!” and stops allowing it on their (new) hardware. I don’t think that’s far in the future.
This potential cooperation only buys time and doesn’t solve the core dependency: if Google ever discontinues AOSP, both GrapheneOS and any OEM partners would face the same dead end.
Currently they’re not close at all to being daily drivers (can speak from experience as I’ve flashed Ubuntu Touch onto a phone a few days ago), but their development has sped up a lot lately, so here’s to hoping for the best!
A substantial amount of open source devs will probably just give up working on their projects if they can no longer be installed by most users.
That will also affect Graphene users.
Graphene will also only work until Google one day says “You know what… No!” and stops allowing it on their (new) hardware. I don’t think that’s far in the future.
That is exactly why the GrapheneOS team is already in talks with an Android OEM.
This potential cooperation only buys time and doesn’t solve the core dependency: if Google ever discontinues AOSP, both GrapheneOS and any OEM partners would face the same dead end.
Hopefully by then linux phones will be usable as daily drivers (which afaik they currently are not, mostly).
Currently they’re not close at all to being daily drivers (can speak from experience as I’ve flashed Ubuntu Touch onto a phone a few days ago), but their development has sped up a lot lately, so here’s to hoping for the best!
No, they aren’t.
My hope as well. 🤞🏼
Build the OS and the users will come.