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Android-Based GrapheneOS Refuses Age Verification, May Exit Regions That Enforce It (itsfoss.com)

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wonder if that decision is going to b0rk their coming partnership with Motorola. I was looking forward to a non-pixel Graphene phone.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Literally discussed in the article

But this statement by the GrapheneOS team raises an obvious question about that deal. Motorola is a commercial hardware vendor selling devices globally. If it ships a phone running GrapheneOS and that phone lands in a region where age verification is legally mandated at the OS level, Motorola has a compliance problem even if GrapheneOS does not.

The simplest resolution is also the most obvious one: Motorola just does not sell GrapheneOS-powered devices in those regions. Its regular Android lineup continues there, and the GrapheneOS phone ships only in markets where no such law applies.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Literally discussed in the article

Except that I literally didn't ask what a person writing an article thought might be the most obvious solution. I wondered if this decision is going to hurt their partnership, as it's likely that a major manufacturer might not be happy at losing the American and European market, the two regions pushing the hardest for the changes.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough. My hope is that it's as the article speculates, and the devices are open enough that anyone in the affected places can buy a "normal" one and flash GrapheneOS as you do with a Pixel at the moment.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

My hope is that it’s as the article speculates, and the devices are open enough that anyone in the affected places can buy a “normal” one and flash GrapheneOS as you do with a Pixel at the moment.

That would be a fantastic solution. The last time I flashed Graphene, I was amazed at how easy it had become through their web installer. I'd never flashed a ROM so easily prior to that.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago

It's ridiculous how simple it is! My first ROM flash in the early android days relied on some questionable root hack and following a dodgy wiki for hours (which to be fair is still the case today for some devices), but my last GrapheneOS install just involved plugging my new phone into my old phone and opening a web page.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

I'd prefer it if Motorola put whatever OS they feel like and just allow for GrapheneOS to be installed by unlocking/relocking the bootloader, similar to what is already the case on Pixels.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Probably just won't sell those specific models in those regions? All mobile manufacturers already have region specific devices.