Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days ago‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws nearwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square280fedilinkarrow-up11.51Karrow-down19
arrow-up11.5Karrow-down1external-link‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws nearwww.techradar.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square280fedilink
minus-squareCovfefeKills@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoYea but you had to buy a google phone right or do they support more phones now
minus-squareeneff@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·20 hours agoYou are right to point out that this hardware dependency on Google is bad and obviously this wouldn’t work for everyone if everyone were to switch to GrapheneOS, but you can totally buy a used Pixel if you don’t want to give more money to Google.
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 hours agoSadly I had to. But Motorola did support… before I got a Samsung I had a grapheneOS compatible Motorola, but it broke down. Motorola is starting to offer grapheneOS compatible phones or so they said, on the regular.
Yea but you had to buy a google phone right or do they support more phones now
You are right to point out that this hardware dependency on Google is bad and obviously this wouldn’t work for everyone if everyone were to switch to GrapheneOS, but you can totally buy a used Pixel if you don’t want to give more money to Google.
Sadly I had to. But Motorola did support… before I got a Samsung I had a grapheneOS compatible Motorola, but it broke down.
Motorola is starting to offer grapheneOS compatible phones or so they said, on the regular.