They updated the app to use the Play Integrity API, which GOS does not meet.

Not that it means anything, of course. GOS is far more secure than Google's laughable excuse of a certification.

Problem is, thanks to capitalism, you're no longer choosing from dozens of companies. You're choosing between 2-3 conglomerates that own the dozens of brands. And all conglomerates will do the exact same shit, because they can, and you're left twiddling your thumbs, not choosing between auto manufacturers but between owning a vehicle or not.

So don't purchase anything? Seems kind of hard to do.

With the number of countries trying to crack down on privacy-focused phone OSs, I'm a little worried Motorola may get cold feet after talking to its lawyers. Has Motorola made any public statement promising these phones are coming?

I'm sure we'll get that transparency any minute now. Same transparency I'm waiting for why my work is going for Return-to-office while simultaneously short on desks to return to office.

It's just stupid oversight, they switched to the Play Store API, which naturally excludes Graphene OS. But mind you this is the same managerial incompetence that brought us the lack of a Volks-Wagen (an affordable car that is) from Volkswagen, withdrawing partially from BEVs just as they get fully embraced and the sales start to accelerate, and of course who could forget the let's be honest fully C-suite ordered Diesel exhaust cheating.

At this point, Volkswagen needs to be shut down and all middle~executive management needs to be prosecuted going back 20 or so years. They're all criminally incompetent and ruined thousands of livelihoods with their negligence.

They changed something in the play integrity or one of those similar libraries. They're not explicitly targeting GrapheneOS, it's affecting some other platforms too. It was also affecting iPhones, but I think they've since fixed that.

They didn't block explicitly Graphene OS.

Good news, you’ve not missed anything. It’s a shit app for the id4 at least.

Volkswagen Auto Group (VAG) is huge. It contains:

• SEAT
• Skoda
• Cupra
• VW
• Audi
• Lamborghini
• Bently
• Ducati
• Porsche
• MAN
• International
• Scania

And that’s just the vehicles.

Already was for me, their cars are worse than American cars. I'd sooner a Ford or Chevy. And I haven't owned an American car in 20 years.

The only VW I'll own is air-cooled, or equipped with the EA827 (diesel or gas, either is fine).