Comment by rgblambda
11 hours ago
>It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money.
If you're doing comms for a serious project, it's probably best not to speculate on the justification of an internal decision at a different org, even if you're reasonably sure.
>For example, non-Samsung Android OEMs aren't allowed to directly sell devices with GrapheneOS and Google will only permit it within a quota. It can and is being worked around and there will be devices sold with GrapheneOS as the stock OS without Google restricting how many can be sold.
I think at this point is too late for complicity, they are actively fighting against GrapheneOS anyway. You either fight back, or wait until you loose all the leverage
My point isn't about fighting back vs rolling over. Just that it doesn't achieve anything to guess at why Google did a certain thing.
Edit: Maybe you replied to the wrong comment? I didn't say anything about complicity and neither did the GrapheneOS announcement in the part I quoted.
The quote is from another thread, not sure why GP didn't link their source to avoid this confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946698
They had to, as many users were purchasing pixel 11 devices before support was announced. Announcing an unclear future is fine and transparency is appreciated. Simply ignoring the problem is not a solution.
>best not to
Because? The obvious implication is you're saying Google will abuse their monopoly to hurt you if you upset them. Is that what you're implying? Or is it user trust, or something else you think is improved by avoiding such speculation?
I was actually just implying that it looks unprofessional. Say they cut an important security feature. Don't try to guess why.
They are not interested in shoveling corporate slop. They dont know why, and so, that is what they said. That is a commendable trait and google has many things to answer for. Being silent only serves to benefit google by concealing this behaviour further.
It entirely depends on the strategy you try to implement through your communication.
That is generally true: prior to any professional communication you have a goal, assumptions, messaging, etc. Why would you produce communication at all, if you had not?
Marketing people often think there is a cookie-cutter rulebook you should follow, but there is not.
We are living in the "the bird is freed" and "nice genes" era of corporate communication.
Well you clearly didn't realise what you did.
Oh, and I'm not going to tell you what it was, and 'don't try to guess'.
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Innuendo about how large organizations make decisions, issued by people who have never had a job, are de rigueur for open source activists and catnip for HN.
I think cutting it for saving money is the most charitable explanation you can give, the other ones would look much worse for Google.
Timeline pressure seems to me the most likely one, and that looks no worse than saving money.
How could that be when previous models have it? In terms of timeline, it seems quicker not to remove a feature than to remove and test the new changes