So there's this phone. It looks quite similar to grapheneos, even having vanadium.
I thought it was very cool, especially since GrapheneOS announced working with some OEM some time ago, and punkt being popular within the privacy crowd for being a dumb phone with signal.
All my enthusiasm vaporised once I read about the AphyOS *subscription*.
I get it, making and maintaining a supposed secure OS is intensive. And rightfully you're to be compensated.
But what the actual FUCK do you mean by
> Opting out of subscription will result in *gradual feature deactivation*, and ultimately reverting to a device running AOSP (Android Open Source Project).
Stopping updates I can understand, but actively removing features!?
https://www.punkt.ch/products/mc03-premium-secure-smartphone
#grapheneos #punkt #aphyos #enshittification
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