Proprietary subscription OS, big no for me. Has worse specs than a Google Pixel and probably doesn’t have strong hardware security. Wtf would I not just use a Pixel with GrapheneOS, which is FOSS, heavily deblobbed over base AOSP, and substantial more secure and private. What a weak argument “AphyOS is a subscription operating system, simply because if you don’t pay for a product, you are the product” when GOS is free. They should just sell a phone and guarantee OS updates for (at least) 5 years like any (reasonable) OEM would do if they “care about their users”. The only, and I mean only, feature that I think is interesting is the SD card slot, which isn’t revolutionary.

If you don’t want a Google Pixel because buying it supports Google, get it used in Good or Mint condition from a site like Swappa.com, that way no profit makes it’s way to Google.