I don’t recommend others follow suit as the Pixel 5 has stopped receiving security updates. Obviously could use a ROM that has them them but no guarantee or obligation to do so in a timely manner. Pixel 6 however will receive updates until 2026.

Beeper existed before the iMessage thing as an attempt to unify all your messaging apps into one.

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10 doesn’t allow bootloader unlocking so I’d have a hard time recommending that with only 2 years of OS updates. Probably would have bought one otherwise

Nowhere in that article does it say they were selling data to Microsoft…