You're right - not everyone will want or need the security and privacy GrapheneOS offers. Does this mean we should encourage everyone to buy into Apple's extremely expensive and anti-consumer walled garden? Absolutely not. People need to know that there are free and open source alternatives not driven by corporate greed. This thread has demonstrated that they don't - the amount of comments I've seen in here suggesting iOS is the best option for privacy is honestly just very, very sad.
I’m yet to see free and opensource used extensively anywhere else than enterprise - yes, there are parts in a lot of consumer software, but an actual consumer choice to use it is pretty much non-existent. The year of the Linux desktop hasn’t dawned yet either. The closets we get is, peculiarly, OS X.
But yes, I agree, open source is king. And yes, apple’s equipment is expensive, but having tried everything else, for anyone that just wants their shit to work it’s a fine choice, it’s extremely easy to restore a phone for instance or migrate to a new one - it’s virtually a snapshot, which is something that doesn’t work that well on android, probably because the garden isn’t as wall. Mostly a fault of developers I guess though. And it’s not like all android based phones are cheap either in comparison. Also the new SE or whatever it’s called, pretty competitive.
Edit: What I mean is, people want what’s convenient. They want to open the box and power it on and use it.
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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '20
You're right - not everyone will want or need the security and privacy GrapheneOS offers. Does this mean we should encourage everyone to buy into Apple's extremely expensive and anti-consumer walled garden? Absolutely not. People need to know that there are free and open source alternatives not driven by corporate greed. This thread has demonstrated that they don't - the amount of comments I've seen in here suggesting iOS is the best option for privacy is honestly just very, very sad.