Re: Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

As others have said, this is not the most recent status update (it depends on future Google changes in QPR1 or QPR2).

The much more interesting recent news IMO is that Google is not allowing (non-Samsung) OEMs to sell devices with GrapheneOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946698

See the last paragraph.

For example, non-Samsung Android OEMs aren't allowed to directly sell devices with GrapheneOS and Google will only permit it within a quota. It can and is being worked around and there will be devices sold with GrapheneOS as the stock OS without Google restricting how many can be sold.

My guess is that the workaround is that Motorola sells them with Google-certified Android. A third-party (non-OEM) buys them in bulk and preinstalls GrapheneOS.

But this is really end-90s/begin-00s Microsoft levels of anti-competitiveness. I'm surprised that (particularly non-US) regulators are not investigating them yet.

microtonal, 1 hour ago