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We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch (www.extremetech.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fairphone maybe but Samsung is never going to give up their surveillance income ad revenue.

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    • [+] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    If Google kills AOSP, a lot more than just GrapheneOS will stop being able to exist lest some entity maintains a fork that diverges from Google's path. Vendors that aren't shipping in line with Play Services and the rest of the ecosystem as well as LineageOS and other custom ROM development teams will suffer as well.

    This kind of decision would essentially kill adoption of Android in a good number of countries within a few years as well as be the end of Android adoption for anyone that cares about security and/or privacy. Yes, It would either kill or put a large burden upon GrapheneOS as a project, but that is also true for so many other projects in the ecosystem. If the developers shutter their AOSP usage due to upstream abandonment, the users will likely follow in the same pattern.

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    • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah s please. How?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    Governments should require all firmware to be open source. That will do far more to enable linux and other variants than any other game of whackamole. Google will kill Android open-source eventually.

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    • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I can't speak for the others, but I know that there are hardware security features GOS requires that aren't present in non-Pixel phones. It's not so much that they don't want to work in other hardware, but that they don't want to lower their security standards to do so.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    I think "push other phone OEM's" here mostly means to encourage these OEMs to make devices that are compatible with these altenative operating systems. In the case of GrapheneOS, that means a device with the necessary security hardware components.

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    • [–] 10 points 3 months ago*

    There's isn't a fucking chance Samsung is giving up data mining to move to GOS.

    Elon Musk would get his Communist Party membership first.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I'm up for it. Fairphone already works with Murena (eOS). They could work with SailfishOS, postmarketOS, and others. But how do we go about convincing them of doing so?

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Good luck!

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Fairphone is probably the only realistic possibility since they will use blobs.

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