It is not ridiculous at all. GrapheneOS is not going to compromise the privacy and security of their users for the sake of spite for one specific company. It would be immature and irresponsible to make important choices based on spite rather than objectivity.
replyMotorola has stepped up to meet the baseline requirements for GrapheneOS support, and we should get Motorola devices with official GrapheneOS support next year.
The intersection of phones that have unlockable bootloaders, public-ish driver blobs and decent hardware is tiny.
replyWhat other phone would you pick?
Everything Lineage supports.
replyHow do you reconcile that position with what Graphene OS lists as requirements for support, as linked by another commenter? https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices
replyI’m not an expert, but all the listed points there sound reasonable. If indeed only the Pixels support them, well, it’s too bad there’s not other, similarly secure hardware out there.
Please go read this and try again: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices
replyIf you want Graphene level security you need to have the hardware for it.
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