wouldn’t it be possible to launch a new privacy mobile phone brand if some of the “smart” people stick their heads together? compete against the market leaders, surely the privacy phone would attract high interest
We're going to be moving forward under the expectation that future Pixel devices may not meet the requirements to run GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices) and may not support using another OS. We've been in talks with a couple OEMs about making devices and what it would cost.
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Smart people with an interest in this rather niche device category are probably not wealthy enough to fund this. Except for @jack.
One hard problem that is we’ve already seen the anon the phone and that one was a complete honey pot so people are now suspicious
That ANOM device and service was sketchy from the start. It had no external groups performing security assurance towards it, had no public face or a person/group associating with it and it's certain they marketed their product on unfounded claims.
There was zero transparency, and they wouldn't have any because they know if they had an associated person - they'd risk being a target later or have a destroyed reputation.
Being a public group of individuals, there's a reputation on the line for us.