TRInvictus Those "normal" people aren't being picked up, so goal missed.
Exactly.
If the goal is to create privacy and security, we can't do it with just the 5% or less of the population willing to suffer and use minimalist, high-effort/barrier to entry and use systems.
And with the point where GrapheneOS is right now, they could do more. They have a great OS, they've worked out a lot of the stuff.
All they have to do is give us a version we can install quickly on our friends and family's phones for them which they will like. Normal people don't want minimalist absence of warmth and attractiveness. They want something super attractive, kitchy, shiny, cute, perfect on the eyes in terms of what they see on their screen (contrasts of words against background, weather app as the background, size of the clock, colors of the login screen). These are things I wouldn't have even considered but I recently made Graphene devices for normal people who I care about, and they still haven't adopted them (are just using them sometimes) because of these things. Super important for them is the wallpaper, the colors, etc which I mentioned. It's make or break). They want to hold their little attractive phone and get enjoyment out of it, using their apps and stuff to look at social media etc.
But with Graphere as it is now, we (they, the Graphene team) get to chose for these normal people. We (they) can create a stock version of GrapheneOS-for-normal-people which is set up just how they would want normal people to use it, and normal people won't kick and scream or even try to change anything about this, as long as you just give them the cute attractive nice looking screen and interactions they like so much. They could package all this in one install click and have everything set up for these people, and we could get them to adopt it way easier/possible at all).
I mean putting nothing on the Owner, making a few Users (safe apps User, unsafe apps User for junking out occasionally on the things they and we will not want to totally give up), banking User, etc. Inside the safe apps User give them a suite like Apple does with something to organize photos and videos, something to edit, something to make video compilations, something to do maps (Organic Maps or whatever), etc etc. The couple trusted messenging apps. The couple trusted email apps. ... Inside the untrusted apps, put Insta Facebook etc, but give them access to the controlled selected folders which Graphene now allows us to do, so they don't have to try to figure this out themselves and give up right away. These people do not need customization, they will accept anything you put in their hands as longs as they can still do the 10 things they really like doing and it looks nice. And most important maybe, that it is VERY easy ie no effort at all except logging in to things.