Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation

Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by oblio on Monday March 02, 2026 @08:20AM (#47217653)

How many is many? Fairly sure hardware development is very hard and expensive. Are we talking about 1 million people worldwide (peanuts, will probably not recover the investment) or 50 million worldwide (might be worth it)?

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by regularfry on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:59AM (#47219661)

I think you're an order of magnitude out. Motorola shipped 36.6 million handsets total across 2024. They seem to have had 33 handset models available in that period, and they were in profit, so the break-even point is presumably somewhere below 1.1M handsets.

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by oblio on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:31PM (#47222917)

If I'm off for the second group I'm probably also off for the first one. I'd be surprised if a purely privacy focused phone sells more than 200k units per year.

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