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Comment by mrbn100ful

9 hours ago

Yes please buy the low volume phone from a 5% market share manufacturer.

Someone high up got tired to pull over every pixel user at the border.

With the new Motorola, TSA line are going to move faster that ever!

If you care about privacy, stay away for the moto release and stick with pixel.

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lesspassiveobse  9 hours ago

English version: Yes, please buy the low volume phone from a 5% market share manufacturer. Someone high up got tired of having to pull over every pixel user at the border. With the new Motorola, TSA lines are going to move faster than ever! If you care about privacy, stay away from the moto release and stick with pixel.

For reference Pixels have about 1% market share, the graphene phones will be the same hardware as normal moto flagships and 99% of TSA agents won't be able to differentiate motorola models

  • gruez  9 hours ago

    >For reference Pixels have about 1% market share,

    You're off by a factor of 3, unless you count global market share, which includes random brands unlikely to be in the US like xiaomi or huawei.

    https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/us-smartphone-m...

    Moreover motorola flagships (ie. the only model that support grapheneos for now) are likely a fraction of the market share of motorola as a whole, so OP is still correct in that motorola grapheneos phones are more identifiable.

    >the graphene phones will be the same hardware as normal moto flagships and 99% of TSA agents won't be able to differentiate motorola models

    That argument could be used for pixels as well, which are also just generic black rectangles, especially the "a" models that lack the distinctive camera bump. Also if DHS/ICE really wanted to, they could avoid this problem altogether by requiring travelers to self-declare what phone they have. Sure, you can lie, but then you committed a federal offense by lying on immigration paperwork.

  • mrbn100ful  7 hours ago

    Go on the Motorola website, over 40 SKUs! We all know that the most expensive one is not going to be the most popular.

    Every Google Pixel model per generation ends up supported.

    DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE TSA.

    Social hardening is a real problem.