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Comment by Ethee

19 hours ago

Right on the nose. And to make that problem worse we've integrated a fair share of our lives into these devices, for which there is only 2 terrible choices. I can't tell you how many friends have expressed to me that they'd love to try GrapheneOS or get out of the mobile ecosystem entirely, but all of them use mobile apps for banking which effectively locks them in. It's basically the devil's bargain because we've added so much ease of use functionality to our day to day lives through these devices. In exchange Google is now showing us it was never ours to begin with.

I agree with your post however further info on one point:

> but all of them use mobile apps for banking which effectively locks them in

Many banking apps work fine with GOS. But given banking and money is such an important part of our lives it is easy to see why people might be hesitant.

It doesn't guarantee future compatibility.... but linked below is a GOS [banking app] status list, crowdsourced info by country.

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...