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I guess what I'm trying to say is, what is the growth of GOS gonna be? If Google is kicking them out and they're focusing on flagship phones from Motorola, then it sounds like they have limited their growth potential have they not?
Yeah, you can buy any phone to install any OS system (if you can even find the right model for it) or just degoogle it and use it like that. Thats not a big deal.
The ditching only comes in when you can't use apps because your OS no longer supports it. That too can happen to any phone.
Semi rant: (Pet peeve about the part in the chart about Apple) I use to have an iPhone, and experienced the phones from an iPhone 6, 12 to iPhone 15 and I can say that max is like 2-4 years, not whatever the hell that article is trying to suggest. Shit, if your phone is 1-2 OS system older than what an app requires, its gonna force you to update the phones. Longetivity of iPhones is very lackluster.
Graphene OS was always limiting their growth potential in silly ways. After google is out they will simply choose the best option available to them. What I'm trying to say is that it's far to early to worry about it as they will still support some phones for up to 7 years. By then we can have true linux phones available, Graphene can support different phones or we will simply switch to different deGoogles ROMs.
They do plan to support mid range Motorola phones in the future.