Why would China allow the domestic sale of a device that could run GrapheneOS?
Historically, some very large Android OEMs based in China and selling in China also provided bootloader unlocking support in their devices including Xiaomi https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame... and Oppo https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...
It doesn't have anything directly to do with GrapheneOS, and would have enabled custom OS support of any Android distribution.
Why not?
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Historically, some very large Android OEMs based in China and selling in China also provided bootloader unlocking support in their devices including Xiaomi https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame... and Oppo https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...
It doesn't have anything directly to do with GrapheneOS, and would have enabled custom OS support of any Android distribution.