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Comment by Arainach

12 hours ago

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Except for the fact that the car is sold as is with the features advertised (i.e. working with an Android app with no additional qualifiers as to which kind of android) AND that users are paying for these connective services

  • Graphene is not a kind of Android. It doesn't even advertise itself as such:

    > GrapheneOS is a privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility [https://grapheneos.org/]

    • GrapheneOS is based on the Android Open Source Project and retains near perfect android app compatibility. It cannot call itself android for legal reasons, but the legal definition does not affect its app compatibility.

      Tools such as play integrity are illegal. Using anticompetitive and monopolistic tools is not the right of application developers.

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    • GrapheneOS is obviously an Android distribution, but I suspect trademarks mean they have to be careful about how they describe it.