Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed (www.youtube.com)
from hackitfast@lemmy.world to googlepixel@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 2025 20:27
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LodeMike@lemmy.today on 31 Aug 2025 20:50 next collapse

Next year actually not “now”

abcdqfr@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 2025 22:02 collapse

GrapheneOS looking better every day

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe on 31 Aug 2025 23:20 next collapse

And Lineage, since it can be installed on many more models of phone.

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 2025 02:16 collapse

The advantage Graphene had is gone now. Updates are going to be slowwwwwwwwwww. Google cut the pixel drivers out of AOSP.

CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone on 01 Sep 2025 06:52 next collapse

Frequent updates aren't the only benefit Graphene provides, and even if feature releases are slower, security patches will still come through.. Graphene was designed for security, not frequent feature updates

Still don't buy the Pixel 10, use older pixels. Buy used

DesolateMood@lemmy.zip on 01 Sep 2025 07:46 collapse

Graphene is currently working with an oem to create a device explicitly to support it and estimate that it’ll be ready in a year or two

hackitfast@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 2025 17:30 collapse

MediaTek or Qualcomm chips will be used probably, but to order cutting edge chips they’d need to order pretty high volumes to keep prices down, so the chip they order will probably be older. Though the Pixel 5 was one of my favorite phones, so if they can keep that level of speed on Android 16 then I’m all for it.