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| Authored by: ukjaybrat on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 08:29 AM EDT |
if all you have to do is click a couple buttons to get root,
there will be exponentially more noobs with bricked phones
looking for help on the internet. If, however, it takes a
little bit of experience and know-how to root your phone,
the people that will ultimately ruin their device will be
just scared enough to stay away from it - as they should be
- while the rest of us that know what we are doing, can do
as we want.
Now, this raises another question, though - why can't
techno-phobes have a rooted phone? there isn't an easy
answer. i would suggest a service that roots phones, but i'm
sure there are legal aspects preventing that.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 09:33 AM EDT |
And that is why I choose GPL licensed code.
Because with Apache/BSD -
any ol' proprietary vendor can lock down the software and not provide you any of
the modifications.
I still have positive hopes for Motorola to produce a
totally open phone so one can remove/install all the apps one wants.
The
ironic thing is:
The moment Motorola does that, it'll be much, much harder
for Google's competitors to say Google is responsible for all the other
locked-down-can't-change-defaults phones.
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