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All good and well but what do you do when Google decides to the same in few years time when this has blown over?

• lostmsu 5y ago
  He will flash.
  • godelski 5y ago
    It really seems like there are a lot of bad faith arguments in this thread. Of all places I expect Hacker News to understand that you can put custom open sourced operating systems on a phone (aka: flashing). If I can't talk nerdy here, then where can I?
    • doublerabbit 5y ago
      Google already makes effort to stop flashing of their phones. Just because you can now doesn't mean you can in the future. What do you do then?
      • godelski 5y ago
        What efforts? Pixels have always been the easiest to flash. Phones have always been hacked. Everything is always hacked. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
      • renata 5y ago
        The only effort I've seen, after rooting all my phones for eight years, is the recent move to locking things like Google Pay behind an unrooted phone.