It was very disappointing to find out that GOS was incompatible with every phone brand but one. It is coherent with the Zeitgeist: why care about security and privacy when users will dump all their information in Google and Facebook?

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's borderline with the purity fallacy: that one should not deserve privacy and security because of one or more bad practice.

I believe not so many people give away "everything", and many more probably don't realize how much they give.

There are many reasons one would keep a FB account, or a Google account around. That does not mean that person abandoned all rights on privacy and even less on security.

And how would you recommend a soft transition if you're in a all-or-nothing approach? One day on Google, FB, what's not, and in an instant: new device, new OS, drop everything at once? Nearly no one will do that.

The reason GOS does not support more devices is not because of where other brands vs privacy and security, it's a pure hardware requirements they don't meet. If the Motorola devices are a commercial success, most likely other phone makers will be interested.

[–] racoon@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

the Motorola devices are a commercial success, most likely other phone makers will be interested.

That’s not going to happen because Samsung earns more selling private data than selling phones

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I wasn't counting on Samsung. Indeed: Samsung already meets all the criteria to support GOS, but they cripple their phone upon alternative OS installation.

There are other phone makers left.