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Not true.

From the Android VPN and GM: "We're seeing some speculation that AOSP is being discontinued. To be clear, AOSP is NOT going away. AOSP was built on the foundation of being an open platform for device implementations, SoC vendors, and instruction set architectures.

AOSP needs a reference target that is flexible, configurable, and affordable – independent of any particular hardware, including those from Google. For years, developers have been building Cuttlefish (available on GitHub as the reference device for AOSP) and GSI targets from source. We continue to make those available for testing and development purposes."

https://x.com/seangchau/status/1933029688202703062

>>xnx+(OP)
Reading between the lines tells me they're discontinuing Pixel AOSP support which is a pretty big blow with zero warning to those who used them as de facto reference models.

>>xnx+(OP)
Ready-made AOSP device trees for Pixels, which are needed to build custom ROMs, are the ones going away. This is a blow to GrapheneOS as they have been dedicating 100% of their time to improving their ROM itself in the past few years.

Since at this point they'll need to create device trees like LineageOS does with Snapdragon/MTK phones, so I hope they won't stick with the worst Android manufacturer on Earth. Especially now that the snapdragon 8 elite 2 will have the same security features as the Tensors.

>>belowa+nl
Never mind, it seems like they're thinking of wasting their time with a custom ODM-built smartphone. I truly hope they won't choose this route. If they do someone should add "Will the GrapheneOS-Phone fail?" on Polymarket, I'll bet my parents' house on it.

>>belowa+on
> custom ODM-built smartphone

I agree that this would be a crazy choice and doomed to fail.

>>belowa+nl
The Pixel device trees going away is very disappointing, but he headline "AOSP project is coming to an end" is an exaggeration.

>>xnx+ps
could you elaborate why?

>>112233+ex
They are a niche OS and not everyone who uses graphene wants their hardware. They'll have low production quantity and thus very high costs.