• qualia@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What’s the likelihood that Motorola will eventually lock down GrapheneOS though? Imho it’d be a bad move if they did. The FOSS mobile OS community has matured to the point that we don’t need to rely on for-profit monoliths any more. Motorola would be smart to lead the way to where the mobile device economy will be.

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      matured to the point that we don’t need to rely on for-profit monoliths any more

      Which phones are we using for Graphene OS at the moment? Ah, yeah… Google… well known for its non-profit behaviour… I say: Give me alternatives which we aren’t to try to get rid of in the first place.

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        See: PinePhone (Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS) for $149-199 via their intl site: pine64.org.

        OR

        SF’s Librem 5 (PureOS, plus Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS) for ~$700 via puri.sm.

        Both shippable to the US. They’re unpolished OSs and expect delays, but they do exist. The competition will only increase going forward.

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          Both are alternatives, but not fleshed out as far I know. There is also e/OS, but it’s the same story. So we actually don’t have a viable solution

          Also: Why is “shippable to the US” a criterion for FOSS or the rest of the world? You know, there are other Countries on this blue Marble…

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            We’re speaking English and the US is by far the largest demographic for English speakers on BlueSky. The UK is the second closest and represents 5-6x less people. I genuinely wish you luck with how you engage with people in the future.

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    How I imagine the decision:

    Should we maybe port it to Fairphone? The phone most of our users probably like?

    Nah let’s do Motorola instead - you know the company were you have to spin a dice to determine if your device can unlock the bootloader or not…