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Re: "What makes it so there are only a handful of phone models..."
GrapheneOS has infos about why they stick to Pixel devices (mostly because of hardware security features not available in other devices) and why it is hard to support other devices:
— https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
2023-10-21 · 2 weeks ago
@michaelnordmeyer Thanks--lots of interesting info there.
2023-10-22 · 2 weeks ago
I chime in to add that most manufacturers close any boot access to the phones and make it really hard to request it. There's even the case of Xiaomi, that you can request the opening of the bootloader, it takes a week to unlock and then proceeds to unlock the bootloader and clear the device with a factory reset, effectively losing anything you had on the phone.
There's simply no interest in that we tinker with our phones, since we could, you know, keep using our phones without the bloat they force on them, and maybe not having to buy a nev phone every new year.
2023-10-22 · 13 days ago
What makes it so there are only a handful of phone models that can run degoogled systems? Why doesn't it work like on the PC, where you can just put any Linux distro on any machine?