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Where's the love for Motorola? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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With the recent announcement of Motorola partnering with GrapheneOS, I got curious about installing a custom rom like LineageOS or/e/OS on my Moto G Power (vegas) because I've been meaning to degoogle for a while now. As far as I can tell, Motorola has all the keys to be a primary development target: OEM supported boot unlocking, cheap devices, accessible hardware, etc. Why have their devices largely been ignored by custom ROM developers?

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[–] canthangmightstain@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All of which is easy to look back and say. Nobody knew what was going to win out at the time. The Moto X was great for its size and customizability for the price (as in you could literally change the colors), the G was a budget phone that also offered customization.

And you’re mistaken, the Moto X had multiple different sizes starting at 16GB. I had the 32GB developer edition myself.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe later it did. At launch it was just 16GB and that's what my wife got. I heard they came out with a 32GB version later.

I can say what I can say now because hindsight is 20/20 but I also lived through those days, so I can also say what I experienced.