Comment by rlue
9 months ago
Your prediction is about a hardware product, and your examples are both software products (one is a browser and another is a mobile OS, both of which are platforms for running other software, and thus extremely well-suited to the task of reporting user data back to Google).
I'm not an expert, but baking telemetry into the hardware (or at least the kind of telemetry that I assume Google is interested in) seems like skipping a few levels of abstraction, and thus more trouble than it's worth.
> baking telemetry into the hardware (or at least the kind of telemetry that I assume Google is interested in) seems like skipping a few levels of abstraction, and thus more trouble than it's worth.
This isn't really a practical way of doing it. Google Play and Google Play Services having privileged access is more than sufficient.
Which they don't have under Graphene OS - they are the same as any other service you could write.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I meant they get all that on the stock OS, but didn't make that clear.
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