Comment by moooo99
9 hours ago
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.
The legal definition matters a lot if someone is trying to argue that VW advertising Android features is supposed to include GrapheneOS
> Using anticompetitive and monopolistic tools is not the right of application developers.
Please talk to an actual lawyer before making legal claims, because to be blunt it's very clear you don't know what many of those terms mean in a legal context. VW is not a "monopoly". They have no obligation to allow the use of their software on platforms they don't want.
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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.