An Open Source phone would only be actually beneficial if there will be an automated transparent and trusted global support infrastructure for it that would require zero user interaction.
I use an iPhone because it’s the most secure hardware and software combination you can get and you are guaranteed to receive support for 5> years.
I don’t want to have to compile my own kernels, set up my own chain of trust or deploy my own patches.
It’s too cumbersome which would lead to procrastination that is if you don’t screw up something in the process to being with.
Also as far as the hardware goes I have currently more faith in Apple being able to get and secure its supply chain than a small company which completely relies on Chinese OEMs for its design.
The baseband will not be open source, it will have to use blobs as such other than running a more vanilla flavor of Linux I don’t see it being any different than any phone that can run AOSP.
I use an iPhone because it’s the most secure hardware and software combination you can get and you are guaranteed to receive support for 5> years.
I don’t want to have to compile my own kernels, set up my own chain of trust or deploy my own patches. It’s too cumbersome which would lead to procrastination that is if you don’t screw up something in the process to being with.
Also as far as the hardware goes I have currently more faith in Apple being able to get and secure its supply chain than a small company which completely relies on Chinese OEMs for its design.
The baseband will not be open source, it will have to use blobs as such other than running a more vanilla flavor of Linux I don’t see it being any different than any phone that can run AOSP.