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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by kamranjon on Sunday August 31, 2025 @11:42AM (#45084051)
What are the implications of this for GrapheneOS? Because it’s based on android, will that project die off?
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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by slashtab on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:06PM (#45084219)
No, GOS is fine.
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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by janice1999 on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:40PM (#45084558)
They can choose not to enforce it. The problem is that both Google and other phone manufacturers are making custom ROMS more difficult (restricting access to binaries needed to get the phone to work, not providing bootloader unlock etc). The other issue is if governments choose to go after them. Some police services are already trying to equate custom ROMS, and in particular GrapheneOS, with criminal drug-dealing gangs.
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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by justoreply on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:13PM (#45084897)
it doesn't matter, if GrapheneOS is going to be the only one to allow "side-loading", then the market for application installable without a store will disappear
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