> Many people bought Pixels due to this and it wasn't fulfilled.
Did they though? Or is this just conjecture? Because, honestly, Pixels are not even available worldwide so a few AOSP enthusiasts dropping off and going to Graphene hardly seems concerning for the mighty G.
AOSP reference was a tagline for a few nerds that still wanted the Nexus devices of yore, but it was clear from day one that Google wanted their Pixel phones to be their iPhones.
Android's official documented listed Pixels as the Android Open Source Project reference devices until the release of Android 16. It also promised 5-7 years of support from launch.
Pixels are sold in 33 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. A substantial portion of the Pixel userbase is using other operating systems. 400k to 600k active GrapheneOS users on Pixels is a significant amount based on how many Pixels are sold. It's only one of the alternate operating systems people are using. It's not only a few users as you're claiming.
I did
> a few AOSP enthusiasts dropping off
> I did
Precisely my point.
This is literally gaslighting; using someone's opinion as proof that nobody else holds it.
It quite literally isn’t.
No, this isn't what gaslighting is or means.
Saying that holding a particular opinion makes you irrelevant is not gaslighting? It's not nice to respond to a frustrated developer by saying they don't exist. It feels comparable to saying someone's concerns are not real, which does amount to gaslighting to me.
No one says graphene os doesn’t exist, or the developers don’t exist, just that their opinions don’t matter because they are a miniscule fraction of the market. 2% of active devices drives no decisions at Google.
Gaslighting is making a person question the validity of their own true memories.