Just so you know, some people tried to share https://codeberg.org/A-Dad/tracfone-motorola-evidence/src/branch/master/ARTICLE.md on https://discuss.grapheneos.org/ but it was repeatedly got deleted by GOS itself or its moderators.
GOS is partnered with motorola for their next phone. They really d...
The base OS of Android is, but the widely dispersed version maintained by Google with the hardware drivers required for it to work with the actual hardware is not.
That’s why projects like Graphene can’t work on every phone. They have to rely on either reverse engineering hardware drivers or the manufacturers providing the drivers. For many years, Google openly released the drivers for all the hardware in their Pixel line of phones, which allowed Graphene and other customized versions of Android to easily work on Pixel phones.
Manufacturers usually don’t release drivers separately and instead they’re only available built into the manufacturers customized Android version. Android Open Source Project is the open source base, then Google builds their proprietary stuff on top as “Android”, then the various phone manufacturers build their own versions on top of Google’s “Android” with: manufacturer specific crud added, phone specific crud added, and often phone carrier specific crud added.
the difference is that Google is actually doing bad things, and you’re just sharing conjecture about something you believeMIGHT POSSIBLY happen at some point in the indeterminate future.
this is without even considering that the belief in question is supported by a new account, registered hours ago to post an accusation without any proof to back it up besides a random issue posted to a random Codeberg, that was created very recently by an account with no history, to share rumors about Tracfone.
do you believe every single thing people tell you? because if so, I have some oceanfront property in Wyoming to sell you, and there’s a Nigerian prince who wants to finance it it, he just needs you to send me $10,000 so he can unlock his assets and send you $1,000,000.
I believe it’s literally impossible a big company like Lenovo distribute a phone with GrapheneOS like that with no strings attached. You’ll probably see spyware, telemetry, maybe even ads in that OS.
Maybe we find out the profit from including ads and spyware isn’t so much, and it all turns out great? Moto sees the chance to get on the right side of consumers and sells phones as a result.
Isn’t Android open source too? What’s up with all this “stop killing Android” non-sense? Right?
The base OS of Android is, but the widely dispersed version maintained by Google with the hardware drivers required for it to work with the actual hardware is not.
That’s why projects like Graphene can’t work on every phone. They have to rely on either reverse engineering hardware drivers or the manufacturers providing the drivers. For many years, Google openly released the drivers for all the hardware in their Pixel line of phones, which allowed Graphene and other customized versions of Android to easily work on Pixel phones.
Manufacturers usually don’t release drivers separately and instead they’re only available built into the manufacturers customized Android version. Android Open Source Project is the open source base, then Google builds their proprietary stuff on top as “Android”, then the various phone manufacturers build their own versions on top of Google’s “Android” with: manufacturer specific crud added, phone specific crud added, and often phone carrier specific crud added.
Very tangential, but Android source code is getting a heavily delayed release, and this is harming projects like Graphene
the difference is that Google is actually doing bad things, and you’re just sharing conjecture about something you believe MIGHT POSSIBLY happen at some point in the indeterminate future.
this is without even considering that the belief in question is supported by a new account, registered hours ago to post an accusation without any proof to back it up besides a random issue posted to a random Codeberg, that was created very recently by an account with no history, to share rumors about Tracfone.
do you believe every single thing people tell you? because if so, I have some oceanfront property in Wyoming to sell you, and there’s a Nigerian prince who wants to finance it it, he just needs you to send me $10,000 so he can unlock his assets and send you $1,000,000.
I believe it’s literally impossible a big company like Lenovo distribute a phone with GrapheneOS like that with no strings attached. You’ll probably see spyware, telemetry, maybe even ads in that OS.
Maybe we find out the profit from including ads and spyware isn’t so much, and it all turns out great? Moto sees the chance to get on the right side of consumers and sells phones as a result.