[normaler]

GraphenOS offers that, since the Playstore/Google Applications are non privileged applications.

Big Plus for being easy installable from the Graphenos Appstore Applications. It currently offers 8 applications and 4 of them are GraphenOS own applications.

[jamaicahest]

GrapheneOS is nice for people using Google Pixel phones. And useless for anyone else.

[treypitt]

FWIW the Pixel 8, the newest device offering Advanced Memory Protection, sells for less than $600 brand new right now. You can tune memory tagging & hardened memory allocation on a per-app basis. It's a game changer

[prmoustache]

You are saying that as if it was cheap. I am pretty sure most people buy <$250 smartphones. That is at least the case in my social circle, very few iphones, pixel, an awful lot of cheap Xiaomi Redmi and the Samsung Galaxies are usually the A line instead of the S line.

[nbdy]

If someone uses Xiaomi they probably also don't worry about privacy.

[kaanyalova]

At least it is possible (really annoying process) to unlock the bootloader on Xiaomi devices.

[GordonS]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is it about GrapheneOS that makes it better on Pixel devices?

[popol12]

It’s only available for Pixels.

[GordonS]

Ah, that would do it!

[astroid]

It's due to hardware reasons just as an FYI - I forget the specifics, so forgive me if this is dated, but I believe it had to do with some crypto-specific chip if I remember right.

[ranger_danger]

Yeah the proprietary blackbox security chip that they pinky promised to open source but never did...