I know the generall guidance for private phones was Pixel with graphene OS. I was financially planing on buying a 10th gen pixel when they come out later this year to only put gos on it. However with the recent news, I am wondering if this is still the recommended best practice from this community.
I am worried that if the gos team needs to spend tonnes of ressources on maintaining basic drivers and stuff then they won’t have any time to work on the privacy and security features they are best known for.
What is your oppinion?
Also does anyone have a way to dpam feedback to google? I couldn’t finf a generall feedback form, but if they know that people aren’t buying their hardware because of this decision, they might back down. (I really fell in love with gos researching it lately so I would hate to have to switch to something like /e/ os or calyx or something)
I wouldn’t worry about it in the near term. The longterm concern would be security updates for drivers, but if you’re waiting for them to find an OEM and design a phone, you will be waiting for years best case.
Also, how many in the wild exploits specifically attack hardware drivers on specific models? Seems like a bad effort per user tradeoff unless you’re a state actor doing a targeted attack, in which case they’ll just get in through your cell modem directly off the cell network anyway. If you use cell networks, every state actor willing to pay a million bucks to the Israelis can get in until your next reboot no matter what you’re using.