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Android is modified Linux software.


No. Android is the Linux kernel with a huge amount of Java around it, which provide all the relevant services for a mobile phone.


Sure. GrapheneOS is the Android system with a huge amount of removed bullshit baked in, which provide all the meaningful privacy changes needed for a better mobile phone.

The point is to abandon Google in every way that is reasonably possible. I obviously don't see much of a difference with Apple, nor Microsoft. What options remain that are reasonable in the effort applied and remain plausible in a competitive world? My answer was GrapheneOS. Yours is?


> What options remain that are reasonable in the effort applied and remain plausible in a competitive world?

Depends on what is reasonable for you. My answer would be GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 and Pinephone. Their development direction is not dictated by Google.




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