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You know the project will soon be dead after gpixels will lock their bootloaders? Just the way oneplus did, reel people and then enshittify
They announced that they're working with an OEM to support new non-pixel phones (perhaps even shipped with GOS).
The Pixel 9 series will be supported for another 6 years, and GOS support for the Pixel 10 is probably coming after Google releases QPR1 source. Hopefully there will be viable replacements by then.
Google is obviously going to keep making this more difficult but the rest of the world isn't going to just sit still.
I mean they have and well continue to do so. The majority of people don't care. Other manufactures removed unlocking and people don't care.
The majority of people will trail behind by 5-10 years, same as always. As long as a small minority at the cutting edge continue to use and develop better things, everyone will have access to them eventually.
They're making their own phone now. It's not going to die, at least not in that way.
That's not what's happening. GOS has said they are partnering with an OEM, which means a yet-to-be-named manufacturer will ship their devices with GOS preinstalled.
But GOS has said things like this before with no outcome. So we will see what happens.
Look at what happens to Cyanogen when they did their own phone. Doing their own hardware doesn't mean they well survive.
Perhaps, but they can't lock the bootloader on my Pixel 9 that's not running Google's version of Android.
i heard OP for the newer ones, im on the 12r right now.
You do realize you can unlock the bootloader of pretty much every OnePlus device right?
Not anymore for the new ones, they stopped
That's not true tho? The OnePlus 13(current latest phone) has tons of custom ROM support and can be easily unlocked. Have you looked at xda at all to check your claims?
Https
Dude that's china only and is the standard there. OnePlus phones are just oppo phones with a different coat of paint and this is what oppo phones are