• Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz
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      tinfoil hat on It’s obviously Apple funding this. They know most android users won’t buy apples, they just want to weaken Google.

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        Could you imagine if apple created a Sub, where they made grapheneos iphones? Google would lose billions

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          I think you are harshly overestimating how many people use GrapheneOS or even care about what it stands for.

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              Yeah, by all of them? Whats the percentage of journalists in all android users? Thats still a minority.

              Look, I am not arguing against the use of it. Just people try to paint a picture like this is being used so widely when likely 95% of users haven’t even heard about it.

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                95% is being generous too. I’d be surprised if even 1% of users know what GrapheneOS is. Tech-savvy people vastly overestimate the general public. Like how using an ad blocker is common sense to all of us, yet some 2/3rds of the world likely don’t.

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              If somebody is buying a phone just because it’s made by apple, they were never going to buy an android in the first place. Google would be entirely unaffected by this.

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              GrapheneOS goes against everything Apple stands for, how does this even make remotely sense?

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          I would unironically buy a gos iPhone. Like not the newest shiniest but older iphones become reasonable pricewise

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            They make pretty good hardware and the fact that there aren’t too many different configurations is a plus when it comes to software support. GOS iPhone would be awesome. Unfortunately never going to happen :(