I agree. They need improvement.

i personally think people who maintain distros outside of these countries/regions will just ignore these requirements

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It’d lilely be to OEM selling the phones in the state, since GrapheneOS is run in a country with different laws.

Very true 👍

They need several years of updates for firmware, baseband radios etc from the OEM, They also need a robust secure element, this is why spec requirements are as they are. Mainly for the end user’s security & privacy can’t have privacy without actual security.