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They're probably worried about articles criticising the code close to launch. No one's gonna bother verifying, it's a lot of effort to verify, but it sounds credible enough if someone claims Burger Technology read the code and found a potential vulnerability, or didn't use best practice, or something is inefficient/bad code, or just like, look, here's proof that they collect metrics, this is unprecedented spyware.
It sucks obviously, I'm hoping it'll become open sourced and more in the future. But I understand the business impact calculus being very different for Huawei vs Samsung or Fairphone.
That's actually a really good point.
I'm sure that some ultra nerd would go and read the source code. But it doesn't matter, because even if Robert Fosslover reads the whole repository and writes on his blog that it's actually free of spyware, nobody is gonna hear about it anyway or if they do, they'll call him a see see pee chill.