A further opportunity has arisen!

Ever seen our AOSP based apps (Phone,Messages,Gallery…) & thought I could make a difference to bring them up?

We’re seeking a senior Android engineer to take ownership of the default app suite:

https://grapheneos.org/hiring#android-apps-software-engineer

Code standard is high, vibe coders need not apply.

Our response was, as it is in most cases to help educate people who use it and the OS ecommended by microG themselves since they have deeper microG integration than what’s available in official LineageOS. It’s an official part of the microG project and it reveals a lot about their overall approach to privacy and security in the project.

We are often asked why we don’t implement it instead of sandboxed Play Services and this just goes to further reinforce that position.

Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility are not the same. Motorola as a singular brand does not mean what it once did. The former spun off the latter and sold it. Mobile Phones are NOT a product of the firm with said ties.

Doesn’t matter how it was branded on the device, what matters for the infringement is how it was sold, we have information that they were being sold AS GrapheneOS using our trademark.

From the International Trademark Association

Use of well-known trademarks such as in comparison lists used by marketers of imitations, was not fair use because it gave the marketers an unlawful comparative advertising advantage by allowing them to trade off the reputation of the well-known marks. (EU)

Our name being used alongside and for the promotion of these products infringes our Trademark outside of fair use.

Based on the investigation done into it, it had a small subset of GrapheneOS changes applied and they falsely advertised it as GrapheneOS. They likely took some of the changes in order to mislead people into believing they were given a variant of GrapheneOS. It didn’t use the GrapheneOS branding though. They used the already well established name and reputation of GrapheneOS to appeal to those it was being sold to.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor/#%3A~%3Atext=Android+operating+system-%2Cgrapheneos%2C-%2C+also+provided+Motherboard