People do pick up Pixel phones to install GrapheneOS on. How many people pick up Apple phones/tablets and are able to install another OS on it and have it as functional as GrapheneOS?
Same with smartwatches which from the Android side can be used offline with apps like Gadgetbridge to retrieve data without giving your watch internet access and not using the official apps.
Apple is very account and OS centric wanting to funnel everything through them. Exception has been MacOS devices which has had better luck with stuff like Asahi Linux.
klankin@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Google’s just using linux for its price, but the GPL of AOSP does a lot of heavy lifting for reverse engineering efforts like this.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Every cloud provider scans their storage, because the law is like that.
People have gotten their MS accounts closed when Onedrive was still called Skydrive due to automated scans finding suspicious activity
klankin@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Damn, I forgot we all live in America - and so do all tech companies in the globe
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The person in question was German. Microsoft found suspicious images on their Skydrive and shut down the whole MS account, Xbox and all.
What was it? Pictures of his kids on the beach, which the puritan American algorithm determined as evil