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GraphenOS offers that, since the Playstore/Google Applications are non privileged applications.

Big Plus for being easy installable from the Graphenos Appstore Applications. It currently offers 8 applications and 4 of them are GraphenOS own applications.

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GrapheneOS is nice for people using Google Pixel phones. And useless for anyone else.

FWIW the Pixel 8, the newest device offering Advanced Memory Protection, sells for less than $600 brand new right now. You can tune memory tagging & hardened memory allocation on a per-app basis. It's a game changer

You are saying that as if it was cheap. I am pretty sure most people buy <$250 smartphones. That is at least the case in my social circle, very few iphones, pixel, an awful lot of cheap Xiaomi Redmi and the Samsung Galaxies are usually the A line instead of the S line.

If someone uses Xiaomi they probably also don't worry about privacy.

At least it is possible (really annoying process) to unlock the bootloader on Xiaomi devices.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is it about GrapheneOS that makes it better on Pixel devices?

It’s only available for Pixels.

Ah, that would do it!

It's due to hardware reasons just as an FYI - I forget the specifics, so forgive me if this is dated, but I believe it had to do with some crypto-specific chip if I remember right.

Yeah the proprietary blackbox security chip that they pinky promised to open source but never did...

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