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by sgc 1402 days ago
I could get by with only using banking websites in the browser. But Why does Jolla not yet support any Pixel phones? I have wanted to try it out for years, but not to the point of trying to make things work on my own.
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Probably because Google does not have an equivalent program to the https://opendevices.ix5.org/ that Sony has.
I don't buy that at all. That is an awesome program that I did not know about. However, they also support Gemini PDA, which is only one of Planet computers devices. And Pixels are well-known to be the among easiest to flash devices out there, and there is no shortage of third party ROMs available for them. From what I read on the SF forums, it's a sort of google boycott despite the fact that flashing a rom gets rid of the google in a pixel.

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/any-chance-of-non-sony-phones...

Further, look at the list of devices they work on - not at all a list of phones easier to flash than a pixel.

https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris

There seems to be a lot of politics in their forums (and their past funding), something that does not interest me in an OS project.

I was offering you the reason why there is no "official" support for Google Pixels, not why there aren't community ports. :)
Right, but I offered you a counter-example in the Gemini PDA, and an indication that there was generally no effort - or positive resistance - to deal with anything google related at all.
I remember Gemini and Jolla had a mutual agreement[1] to put Sailfish OS on the device.

[1] Started from here: https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/1100036246754213894