This is only relevant as long as someone is selling hardware with an unlockable bootloader. The scenario where that isn’t the case in a few years is unfortunately realistic.
the replaceable batteries will be coming back (thanks EU, don’t know if it will spill over to the US tho), and regarding the headphone jack there seems less and less market - wireless headphones have started to win out with features like ANC, passthrough and long battery times (i have to charge mine about once a week, and they are not new), on top of getting rid of the cable that annoyed more people than it endeared. You still can use cabled headphones with an adapter, so i don’t think it’s a catastrophal loss.
You sweet summer child. That market is less than 0.1% of the total smartphone market and its continued existence is against the wishes of the oligopoly. Where there’s money, there is a way, but the money is working against us.
New releases of android aren’t open source and available to the public, the source code is released much later now. You need to be an OEM to get access. This is a real problem faced by developers like Lineage and Graphene
…And have them able to run on zero consumer devices if the bootloaders are locked, and the manufacturers refuse to sign their ROMs for them. (Hint: they will refuse to sign their ROMs for them.)
Android is opensource. ROM developers like lineageos should be able to create nornal ROMs with sideload enabled
This is only relevant as long as someone is selling hardware with an unlockable bootloader. The scenario where that isn’t the case in a few years is unfortunately realistic.
The scrolls tell of a new geohot that will come along and jailbreak again to save us all…
Not really realistic at all. There’s a market for unlocked devices, and where there’s money, there’ll be a way.
There’s a market for headphone jacks and replaceable batteries too but we all see how that turned out.
My phone has both of those things though?
Yeah, mine too, it’s not the fastest and most cutting-edge one, though, maybe that’s what they mean.
Why would I want to spend hundreds on what is essentially a thin client with an mp3 player and web browser?
the replaceable batteries will be coming back (thanks EU, don’t know if it will spill over to the US tho), and regarding the headphone jack there seems less and less market - wireless headphones have started to win out with features like ANC, passthrough and long battery times (i have to charge mine about once a week, and they are not new), on top of getting rid of the cable that annoyed more people than it endeared. You still can use cabled headphones with an adapter, so i don’t think it’s a catastrophal loss.
You sweet summer child. That market is less than 0.1% of the total smartphone market and its continued existence is against the wishes of the oligopoly. Where there’s money, there is a way, but the money is working against us.
New releases of android aren’t open source and available to the public, the source code is released much later now. You need to be an OEM to get access. This is a real problem faced by developers like Lineage and Graphene
That’s a misconception
https://www.ctol.digital/news/android-open-source-google-development-lockdown/
This is literally what I said
Right so ROM developers could still do what they do. Only that it would take longer.
Not ideal but not so grim
…And have them able to run on zero consumer devices if the bootloaders are locked, and the manufacturers refuse to sign their ROMs for them. (Hint: they will refuse to sign their ROMs for them.)
Bank software is the issue.