GrapheneOS/e/ and Murena have been been promoting their products by misleading people about GrapheneOS for years. This has turned into an all out war on GrapheneOS by their company and supporters. We began regularly debunking their inaccurate claims and they try to frame it as aggression.
They've created widespread misconceptions about the GrapheneOS project with inaccurate claims about the purpose of the project and what it provides to users. Many people incorrectly believe they aren't our target audience or that it wouldn't be a good fit for them due to this.
GrapheneOS is a privacy project which is intended to be usable by everyone. Usability and app compatibility are top priorities. Our userbase largely isn't highly technical. It's very easy to install and use. Devices can be purchased around the world with GrapheneOS preinstalled.
There's a comparison between operating systems based on the Android Open Source Project at https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm which provides a good overview of how GrapheneOS compares to other options. GrapheneOS is clearly a privacy project and is a major innovator in privacy protections.
GrapheneOS has an extremely high level of app compatibility. Nearly every Android app can be used on it which is crucial for broad usability. A tiny subset of Android apps banning using an alternate OS which we haven't yet worked around or convinced to allow it are incompatible.
Our primary focus is improving the usability and out-of-the-box experience of GrapheneOS. We're continuing to add own privacy and security focused implementations of functionality normally provided by Google apps/services. The user-facing apps are being overhauled and replaced.
We already shipped our own network-based location and geocoding implementations which we'll be making more discoverable. Our high quality local text-to-speech implementation is shipping soon and we'll also be providing a local speech-to-text implementation. A lot more is coming.
/e/ bundles many privacy invasive apps/services. That includes adding a bunch of Google services not present in AOSP with privileged access. They implement speech-to-text by sending user data to OpenAI without informing users about it. We cannot do that.
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Do you know if there is a high level overview comparison chart between GOS & /e/? or indeed all other mobile OSes? It would be great to send it to people who prefer TL;DR info, the mainstream media or just those that are not technical, so its clear for all to see which is better for privacy &/or security & can therefore make a better informed decision on who to trust? Kind of like https://www.securemessagingapps.com Appreciate all the hard work you & the GOS team put in each day btw! 👊
Do you know if there is a high level overview comparison chart between GOS & /e/? or indeed all other mobile OSes? It would be great to send it to people who prefer TL;DR info, the mainstream media or just those that are not technical, so its clear for all to see which is better for privacy &/or security & can therefore make a better informed decision on who to trust? Kind of like https://www.securemessagingapps.com Appreciate all the hard work you & the GOS team put in each day btw! 👊