Probably their legal obligation to comply with secret government orders (FISA, NSL etc - the government probably already said don't make unhackable phones or else) and their informal wish to remain on the regime's good side.

Samsung is not an American company and what you're claiming would conflict with other countries' laws, namely EU Cyber Resilience Act.

The hardware Samsung provides is not up to spec.

GrapheneOS is seemingly working with an OEM to make a GrapheneOS smartphone. Its probably not samsung, but would still be an established vendor

It better not be Samsung...

It isn't Samsung

They are not making a "GrapheneOS smartphone", they are just helping providers make their new devices compatible with the security requirements, so GrapheneOS can be installed on it. But GrapheneOS will not come by default AFAIK.

It's totally possible that there will be an option to buy the device with GrapheneOS preinstalled https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114749924008111970

I'd love this for a Fairphone.

It definitely won't be Fairphone. See https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-stand...

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115379774100353715 and

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114874684738751793

Willingness to pay great developers and engineers to build secure hardware,

understanding sec,

them observing actual demand for security.

History says don't hold your breath.

We get lucky once in a while, like with Google's hardware (without their software).