This will be the greatest ad for grapheneos imaginable. Practically the entire enthusiast userbase for android is here for some reason downstream of the ability to sideload. I can see this 10xing grapheneos/lineageos over the next few years.
My prediction is it won't overtake android but it'll be too big to ignore (multiple % market share) and force android to take android closed source. This causes forces graphene and lineage and whatever remaining open source OS'es there are to band together and fork off that latest android version. The real question is whether Google then makes a breaking change to android so play store apks no longer work without them.
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just wish grapheneOS had more availability... whats the point when you still have to buy google hardware. miss the days of cyanagenOS
Its better to work on one phone well than be janky on every phone on the market. Nothing is stopping you from forking graphene and vibing it to work on your phone, but they made a calculated effort to focus their developer talent on one phone so it actually works well.
And then GrapheneOS will be pushed aside, no offical app will work on it, because it's "not certified". And every "open" system will end in a similar way.
You know, I really wish to be wrong here.