From what I know, the FRP is baked in to the titan security chip inside the phone which is near impossible to alter. The phone is cryptographically locked, possibly forever.
long story short, depends on your needs.
for me, after using tools like advanced data analysis and photo recognition it would be really really hard to live without especially the photo recognition since i live in a foreign country. it has become a part of my workflow in many different things and although there are other models like you've mentioned, the overall experience both on desktop and mobile isn't nearly as good as what openai provides.
what is this 50/month limit you keep talking about? you need to get your facts right. That's quite the weird behavior to come to a technical forum and ask to be convinced to use the most groundbreaking tech of at least 10 years based on wrong assumptions
i honestly dont know why anyone would use Calyx when GrapheneOS exists. The amount of engineering and attention that went to GrapheneOS, Calyx utterly pales in comparison. Is it not just a glorified LineageOS / AOSP fork with a few preinstalled apps and a firewall?
I use it on my both my daily and development devices, I understand why some people want to use CalyxOS or LineageOS forks for the flexibility they provide.
GrapheneOS is security focused and I hope it stays that way.
I prefer MicroG over sandboxed Google Play. I don't use either OS currently (I use lineage-microg as I don't own a Google pixel phone) but if I did I'd prefer Calyx for that reason alone.
Another reason is that the last time I mentioned this same reason someone apparently from grapheneos came here foaming at the mouth that I was part of a conspiracy spreading disinformation against them and that I was crazy for wanting MicroG. Ummm what??
Because I'm not. I just happen to like MicroG a lot, in particular the local and Mozilla location database options which avoid leaking my location to Google. And I like that I can inspect the code that communicates with Google, for push messages, which is the only thing I want Google services for. And microG can partially fake SafetyNet which Graphene doesn't do (they say they won't lie about security features but I think safetynet is more about DRM). Anyway, it's not even a reason directly related to Calyx.
But that heated reception cemented my opinion. I spoke to the Calyx guys on IRC when they were working on support for my OnePlus and they were very friendly. That matters a lot to me too. Unfortunately OnePlus changed something right then that made it infeasible, I don't remember what exactly. Some boot loader stuff. So it never happened.
But pixel phones are hard to get in my country so I don't own one. So either option is moot. LineageOS does ok anyway. Even though they also seem to hate MicroG for some reason. I don't know why FOSS people can't just get along...
it offers sub desktop grouping. I too used multiple desktops before this, but with stage manager instead of 4-5 desktops I use 2-3 maximum.
For example I group one desktop for messaging, discord, slack, telegram etc.
One desktop for web browsers and documents, and the other for music or whatever I happen to be doing at that moment. It is way faster than minimizing.
One could say they are being cautious since It's a very novel technology open for misuse.
And profit. You don't just release complex, highly capable models for charity. They are a for-profit company after all. It is a business they have the right to use their edge for profit.
Also they are not as closed. They offer APIs for many products and some other ones outright release their sources (especially whisper, a godsent gift for me). Unlike Google's AI research which one commenter pointed out.
