alt Hacker News> My guess is that the workaround is that Motorola sells them with Google-certified Android.
Was this ever the deal with Moto? They announced something recently, but it didn't read like Moto would be distributing devices with preinstalled GOS. Just that it would be able to run GOS.
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Unless they've recently changed the deal, they'll be selling GOS out of the box. That was the announcement two or so years ago, and so far as I know nothing had changed.
Well, they designed some handsets (one is announced, maybe there's another one or two) to meet Pixels / GrapheneOS level of hardware security. That alone is BIG.
Then there's expectation GOS might be sold pre-installed as well.
One obvious challenge with the distribution is: would you want to buy a phone with pre-installed GrapheneOS?
This seems similar to wanting to follow the advice of "only buy bottled water on your trip to India", but the bottle you're buying has the cap removed so they could put a straw in it for your convenience.
Motorola is at 5% of the world's market share. They fell really deep.
The original announcement was vague[0]. Most assumed that Motorola will be releasing a GOS phone[1], but as more information became available it seems that Motorola will release a GOS-compatible phone. At least to start. Both sides are not commenting on if a phone would eventually ship with GOS from the factory AFAIK. But I'm guessing neither wants to commit to anything right now.
[0] https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116159602850585685
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1rik0np/motorol...