Comment by drnick1
11 days ago
That competitor is GrapheneOS. For now, the OS runs on Pixel phones only, but they plan to release their own phone in partnership with an OEM. I expect that this will easily be the most secure and privacy respecting phone out there when it releases. You get more or less 100% Android compatibility except for a handful of apps that enforce the Play Integrity cancer.
So, most of the banking or other financial apps, government ID apps (like AGOV in Switzerland) probably won't work on that phone?
Most banking apps run just fine. My experience is limited to a handful of U.S. banks, but the Graphene community maintains an international list of apps tested by the community.
Cannot Graphene just lie to those apps so they think they're running on a Google-sanctioned Android?
Aren't there other Android releases that run on older hardware and no Google?
It needs to be compatible with iOS apps, not Android.
Why so? Last time I checked Android had more apps available, especially FOSS apps.