Comment by strcat

We're working with a major Android OEM on the future generations of their existing devices meeting the official GrapheneOS requirements so we can officially support their devices. People will be able to buy the regular devices and install GrapheneOS at no extra cost. We're talking about selling devices with GrapheneOS preinstalled but that's not a requirement for the partnership to be a success and other companies could still do it as they do now with Pixels.

Play Integrity API doesn't impact GrapheneOS as much as other alternatives not focused on privacy and security in a similar way. A subset of the apps using the Play Integrity API are explicitly permitting GrapheneOS via hardware attestation including multiple banks like Swissquote. We're working on convincing more banks to permit it. Our hope is for regulators to invalidate the current approach and require defining clear security standards which need to be fairly enforced. The status quo of some banks banning using a much more secure OS that's even much more heavily using hardware-based security features while permitting a Google Mobile Services OS with no patches for 6 years is a massive antitrust issue. It impacts every alternative hardware platform and OS since Android app compatibility is important for competing. The obstacles to getting approved should also not be unreasonably high. It's better if apps don't do this but we can accept they are going to do it if it's a fair system permitting competition, unlike the Play Integrity API.