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5 days agoIt seems to be a concern to the people behind GOS, enough that they are looking for an OEM to make phones to their specs, but I haven’t heard anything to the effect of “Google will stop all support or brick devices that aren’t verified.” Maybe existing GOS Pixels will be fine, maybe they’re sandbagging, I don’t know. It’ll definitely suck for me with a Pixel 9 Pro XL that I expected to keep into the 2030s if that happens.
Google is still the one that provides the hardware/security updates to my knowledge. They could choose to cut that off based on the “legitimacy” of your OS or other arbitrary reasoning. It wouldn’t brick the phone but it would lose all future support, making GOS much less compelling.