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You mean: You can't deploy your altered version to any device Assuming you did not break it while altering. Then you can always deploy your altered version to
by biafra 16y ago
You mean: You can't deploy your altered version to any device
Assuming you did not break it while altering. Then you can always deploy your altered version to the ADP-Phones. For example the Nexus One. And this is not a theoretical possibility. I have done it. It works. I use it every day since.
- wtallis 16y agoOpen is not the same as "open, if you run it on special developer hardware". The Android platform cannot really be said to be open if none of the consumer products based on it are open.
- biafra 16y agoThe Nexus One is a consumer product. You do not have to be a developer to buy it nor is it special developer hardware. Those other devices are still closed because people still buy them. Vote with your wallets and you will have freedom.
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- biafra 16y agoThe easiest way to find one depending on your location might be ebay. There are a lot of new & unused N1s on ebay.de and ebay.com
- kelnos 16y agoSo then by that logic Linux itself isn't open, because manufacturers run it on locked set-top boxes. With a bit of work you can probably get Android to run on commodity hardware.
- calloc 16y agoThose manufacturers are not touting their locked set-top boxes as being an open platform...
- biafra 16y agoI am with you here. The manufacturers should not be allowed to call their phones open if they lock the bootloader so you cannot install unsigned images. But Android as a platform is still open. The same way that Linux is still open.
- kelnos 16y agoAre they? Does HTC, Samsung, etc. actually claim that their phones are "open"? It's Google calling Android open.