> "The sideloading restriction is easily solved by installing GrapheneOS"
> "Unless they block ADB, I wouldn't say it's accurate to claim they're "blocking sideloading"".
Not to pick on these folks but it's like we on HN have forgotten that ordinary people use phones too. For some of us, it's not a limitation as long as we can solder a JTAG debugger to some test pads on the PCB and flash our own firmware, but for most users that's just about as possible as replacing the OS.
The post from Purism is highly inaccurate and is inventing issues which are not real issues along with presenting a product which massive reduces security and app compatibility as somehow solving those things. Dropping mainstream app compatibility and support for the main open source app ecosystem entirely hardly solves a tiny number of apps enforcing using the stock OS.