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“Consumers are buying the more ‘open’ handsets and thus signaling the demand for them.” Are they? What is your source for that?
by ugh 16y ago
“Consumers are buying the more ‘open’ handsets and thus signaling the demand for them.”
Are they? What is your source for that?
- yanw 16y agoOne would imagine buyers get influenced by reviews and those tend to favor the more consumer friendly choices. Also there was an incident with Vodafone where people complained about their bloatware on twitter and they soon pushed an update to remove it.
- guelo 16y agoI imagine the quantity is small but there is some percentage of buyers, such as myself, that make sure there is an root exploit available before I buy a phone.
- jrockway 16y agoAbsolutely. I wanted to buy an EVO 4G and because root was easily available, I had no trouble paying the ETF and switching to Sprint. If I had to use the phone as I bought it from them, I would not be a customer.
- CaptainZapp 16y agoI know it's not fashionable nowadays, but I, for my part stick to Nokia phones. "Rootability" is not an accident there, but part of the design. This, of course is unless your (subsidized) phone is locked down to hell and then some. This is much less a problem in Europe, since you can always buy the unlocked phone and as a matter of fact, with the exception of pre-paid phones, even subsidized phones are not SIM-locked (you sign a contract anyway) and I never had one loaded with un- removable crap-ware.