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Painful Sideloading (i.imgur.com)

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 49 points 13 hours ago

Also, it locks alternative sources to the Play Store out. How convenient, right?

[-] quantumvoid0@programming.dev 13 points 8 hours ago

grapheneOS wont be affected by this so, atleast we dont loose all hope

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip -2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, but those few million users are not global-market-relevant.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 hours ago

It's still good.

GrapheneOS unaffected - > more enthusiasts switch to it - > more funding - > better UX - > more interest, more adoption from less tech savvy people, possible professional grapheneOS installation services (think a guy helping gam gam install windows for a bit of cash, to start)

And so begins the beautiful cycle of mainstream adoption of something great

Or at least that's what I tell myself when the current tech world scares me at night

[-] TotalSonic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Graphene, at least in its current state, is dependent on Google continuing to allow Pixel phone bootloader's to be unlocked and relocked after a new OS is installed, and is dependent on Google for receiving timely upstream security update patches as well. Given Google's current direction my guess is that both these things might be threatened in the future.