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Can't have shit in a closed system. Fuck google.
Linux on phones needs to become a thing. If they start locking down like apple does I will literally go back to a dumb phone.
Degoogled android ROMs will not have this restriction, as they will just have googles verification system removed. So until linux for mobile is a bit more ready you can still use graphene/lineage/etc.
So long as you can still have GrapheneOS and others. Google's handling of pushing updates and device tree shows how fragile that actually is. Linux phone is going to be the best solution so long as Google runs Android
Linux wouldn't fix that
If you don't have the source code you can't do anything.
If you want to get technical, the source code for iOS for the iPhone X was never and will never be released
Aparrently they are trying to close the Sharing off android.
They can't actually do that as vendors build off of the sources.
Luckily we have other vendors like Motorola who are very supportive of custom roms
Idk if I'd call it "very supportive", Motorola voids your warranty to install custom ROMs.
Are there any companies that don't?
Anyway I've never had to use the warranty plus my most current phone is a eBay refurbished device
Google and Fairphone don't. I can't imagine Shift does either being a German company.
"Very supportative" like making you wait 7 days before the option in dev settings become un-greyed lol (serious wtf, I was just about to install Lineage and learned about this bullshit, welp, guess I have to wait till next week)
It really sucks but at least the unlock process is simple and reliable.
Much better than Samsung and other companies
Yes they are. And it's bleak.
The issue with that is that fewer and fewer phones have unlockable bootloaders.
I'd stay way from Graphene but Lineage OS is solid
Does your opinion come with a reason?
Louis Rossman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
Techlore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg
TL;DR: The Graphene devs are crazy. I wouldn't trust them personally. If they were making something lower risk like a text editor I wouldn't be a concerned but I take my phone seriously.
Thx for the context.
Why stay away from Graphene?
Linux on phones no where near as private or usable
Android (AOSP) is really solid as a platform. Even with Google trying to turn it into a proprietary hellscape projects like Lineage OS still work to build a open platform
Not an endorsement, but I just found out about the existence of this phone today: FLX1 which purports to be based on Debian.