I Installed a Graphene-Based OS on Non-Pixel Phones… Here’s the Catch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjGjqBAAgQ
"I was watching youtube(Invidious) and notied RestlessOS . Have you heard of this and are there people actually tried this on non-pixel phone?
“RestlessOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devices. It is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way connected to the GrapheneOS project or its developers.”
https://github.com/cawilliamson/treble_restlessos
I’m very hesitant to give money to Google pixel so I’m going to experiment on this one."
I don’t understand the “giving money to Google” bit about pixels because you can get just about any pixel you want off eBay refurbished anger practically good as new. I would never consider buying a brand new phone because the prices are unreasonable no matter what company you’re buying from.
Totally agree although the demand for pixels has increase i think due to GOS. I think a pixel 6 or 7 are pretty pricey for their age
Seriously this drives me bananas
Well thats a somewhat shortsighted take. Obviously by creating a market demand for used pixels you finance the people that constantly buy the newest pixel… Any phone brand would thrive under conditions like that.
But either way, they are just dogshit phones and thats enough of a reason imo.
You think that customers will buy the latest Pixel only if they are sure someone will buy it when they resell it 5 years later?
Besides, if shitting on Google was a sport I’d be a high-profile athlete, but I recognise that Pixels are not «dogshit phones». I am replying to you from a Pixel 4a (2020).
This is such a wrong train of thought. I usually buy the latest pixel, and have never sold the old ones. Those end up as inheritance to a family member or friend that wants to get on the GOS train but can’t afford it.
I’m hellbent on using grapheneOS for as long as it’s available, and can’t wait for the first Moto flagship to support GOS to be available.
Having said that, sounds like the only person financing my ‘greatest and newest’ Pixel addiction is myself.
In any case, if it takes paying Google to degoogle, I’ll gladly pay Google. We’ll see what happens once the Moto is added to the GOS list of supported devices.
To give you some idea how little impact buying or not buying a pixel has: if you were comparing it to buying new, keeping it for six years and every dollar of your purchase went directly to google as profit, the $800 phone would be 1/322million-th of the revenue generated by that segment of the company during the time you use the phone. You’d be granting google 0.0000003% of their revenue in that segment over that period.
Because the phone isn’t actually all profit, and has to be designed, manufactured, marketed, warehoused, transported to market etc. the actual impact of buying or not buying a pixel phone on googles bottom line is even lower.
I’m not sure about that. By buying used, I’d say you’re at minimum repurposing what would otherwise become e-waste. I don’t think you can say 100% of people selling their used phone are upgrading to the same manufacturer, either. Perhaps they agree your point in them being “dogshit phones” and want to recoup their loss as they side- or up-grade.
I’d agree if this was a massive market. However, we are the minority by far, so I expect it won’t actually drive any new purchases. More likely to save hardware from landfills imo