edit: IMO, Im not sure if upcoming moto phones would run on grapheneOS, or they’ll just pick some features from grapheneOS due to some questionable moto features like “motorola analytics” and embed it on their own OS.

I just hope this wouldn’t be a “bait n’ switch” enshittification just to kill grapheneOS.

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    I’m curious if this just means that GrapheneOS will be supported on future Moto devices… Or if Motorola devices are going to ship with GrapheneOS.

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      It could be that they don’t really know themselves.

      Lenovo / motorola has loads of corporate clients. Given google’s close links to the US government it seems likely that clients would be demanding ungoogled phones.

      Sounds as though, in the first instance GrapheneOS foundation is going to be advising motorola on mods to their OS to disable telemetry, and in exchange motorola will be supporting them to optimise GOS for motorola hardware.

      Depending on how these things go, they might offer it pre-installed, but it seems more likely that motorola would rebrand a downstream soft fork, and ship it with some of their own BS.

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    I hate these “news” sites that never link to the fucking source.

    Which site is this? “Motorolanews” ok nevermind this is the primary source.

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    I’ve been happy with my mid range Motorola g84 for nearly a couple of years. It’s been pretty stable given how much I expect from it.

    If any manufacturer is going to offer an open OS option, I’m happy it’s them.

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    This is great news for GrapheneOS guys but I don’t think it will have a big impact on community. I guess we’ll see if this will increase the number of people running alternative ROMs but there’s plenty of phones that support Lineage OS. This will help the tiny group of people that need to run GrapheneOS for some reason but don’t want to buy a Pixel. It would be amazing if other manufacturers started offering de-Googled phones as well but I don’t really see it coming.