Comment by __MatrixMan__
2 years ago
Not only does Google let you root Pixels, but they don't appear to be interested in interfering with GrapheneOS, which is specifically for Pixels and lets you run all of the google stuff in userspace so that it has to ask your permission before doing things.
Google is plenty evil in their own ways, but they're at least not anti-tinkering.
Probably because they know FOSS is not at all a threat to their business. I love the idea that if I wanted to I could put some other OS... But Android is very reliable and Graphene OS might not support some feature or other, which I might not notice till I actually need it, so I'm not gonna risk the most expensive thing I own with tinkerer tech.
Companies really overestimate end users tolerance for tinkering.
> I'm not gonna risk the most expensive thing I own with tinkerer tech
Different strokes I guess. Until I've put the vendor in a box, I don't consider it "my" phone, and I'm not gonna pay more than $300 for a phone that serves some other master. Yesteryear's refurb pixels are doing just fine.