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1. bitpus+v4[view] [source] 2025-06-12 17:15:25
>>tripdo+(OP)
GrapheneOS made an unforced error by exaggerating the situation. ("Boy who cried wolf"). When you're generic and obviously false in your criticism, it makes it easy for the company to counter it. "Google is killing AOSP" catches eye, but it is sooo easy for the company to counter.

What is going on is frustration. GrapheneOS has been relying on Google's good faith effort on providing binary blobs to Pixel in addition to AOSP to make their OS. Google was under no obligation to give that, and they stopped doing it for whatever reason.

To make things worse, GrapheneOS mentions legal/anti-trust blah blah blah, which means no engineer will touch / comment / help in the matter, and it gets routed to legal blackhole.

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2. oharap+r6[view] [source] 2025-06-12 17:28:33
>>bitpus+v4
How is he exaggerating the situation? What is false about the criticism? Are you referring to a previous time where they cried wolf? I read through the Twitter thread and GrapheneOS seemed pretty even keeled and above board about it to me (even if that is uncharacteristic)
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3. paxys+eb[view] [source] 2025-06-12 17:54:48
>>oharap+r6
He is not exaggerating the situation he is lying. There is no basis for his very clear and serious claim that AOSP is dead.
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4. 112233+JW1[view] [source] 2025-06-13 10:55:20
>>paxys+eb
How would you more accurately characterize current situation with Android 16?
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