We haven't been supporting Samsung devices to begin with. They intentionally perma-kill certain features and hardware functionality when you did unlock and install other OSes.
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Do you expect Google to follow?
Seems they will have to for devices sold in the EU. I think it's safe to say that Google would lose a huge amount of Pixel sales if they was to do this all markets.
If they did I'm guessing it wouldn't just be new models, an update could block OEM unlocking.
We don't expect anything. A lot of it is just people misinterpreting the EU and we brung it up already here
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24601-eu-is-banning-bootloaders-unlock
I hope you are right.
But what can GrapheneOS do if Google decide to lock their phones for whatever reason (and this seems a nice opportunity to justify it)?
No alarmism, but given the way things are moving in Europe, it doesn't seem wrong to monitor the situation.
It's exactly alarmism what I'm seeing here.
Spreading misinformation doesn't help, imo.
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I also hate misinformation, but Samsung that locks the bootloader some days ago is a weird coincidence, and a fact.
Take it as something to monitor.
First, the law explicitly states that compliance with the law should not be used as an excuse to block loading of third party software.
Second, GrapheneOS team has been working on a first party manufacturer device running GrapheneOS which would not be affected by this law.
