Right. Like, why would anyone pay a subscription for that?
Edit: I think I get it now:
Those who buy the MC02 get a year for free, after which they’ll pay around $20/€15/£13 each month (discounted if paid annually) to access a handful of services, including email, a VPN (dubbed “Digital Nomad”), online synchronization for calendar and contacts, secure storage on Punkt’s own Swiss servers and the express promise that there will be no ads or third-party crawlers.
So you can access cloud services without being tied to Google, I suppose. Still, the value proposition is questionable.
Might be more secure since it’s based on GrapheneOS.
If they didn’t mess anything up (security and privacy wise) in their deriviative OS, then I would feel comfortable recommending this to non-tech savvy people who care about their privacy.
Edit: Also with those specs and that battery without Google Play Services, this phone might last me a week on a single charge.
I don’t get the use case. What does it offer over getting an old phone and sticking LineageOS on it?
Or any pixel and putting grapheneos on it.
I think the advantage is that you get to pay $20/mo for some software after the 1st year.
Wtf.
Right. Like, why would anyone pay a subscription for that?
Edit: I think I get it now:
So you can access cloud services without being tied to Google, I suppose. Still, the value proposition is questionable.
You can brag about how you didn’t pay as much as an iPhone while still being able to lord it over the plebs that your phone was expensive.
Might be more secure since it’s based on GrapheneOS.
If they didn’t mess anything up (security and privacy wise) in their deriviative OS, then I would feel comfortable recommending this to non-tech savvy people who care about their privacy.
Edit: Also with those specs and that battery without Google Play Services, this phone might last me a week on a single charge.
It is based on GrapheneOS which is exactly what the project wants.
GrapheneOS is permissively licensed which means exactly this is possible and wanted. I dont get it, but I guess its realism.
Their hardware is way less secure though, so I will stick with user Pixels and GrapheneOS.