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I seriously don’t get what companies think they gain by making moves like this. You’ll catch a bad rep among power-users, and what do you gain which is good en
by josteink 5y ago
I seriously don’t get what companies think they gain by making moves like this.
You’ll catch a bad rep among power-users, and what do you gain which is good enough to counter-act that?
Anyone got any explanation for this kind of behaviour and what kind of (commercial) motivations which are driving it?
- quink 5y agoThey got out of the smartphone business. That's enough of a motivation I guess.
- wincy 5y agoThey don’t want to pay to upkeep a dev portal for phones they no longer make? They’re probably laying off all the people who would maintain such a thing.
- heavyset_go 5y agoThe solution to this is to open source the unlocking backend, or give the assets to a foundation that can maintain it.
- laurent92 5y agoThe problem is recruitment, which capable engineer would agree to maintain a dead system?
- josteink 5y agoIf they open source it, that’s no longer their problem, and the community can pick it up if/when there is a need.
- heavyset_go 5y agoThere are plenty of developers and hobbyists that would, take a look at XDA Developers. Hell, there are people still maintaining Maemo and Palm/HP Pre-era webOS despite the hardware and platforms being dead for nearly a decade.
- necovek 5y agoThey are closing phone business altogether: keeping the unlock service running in perpetuity would be an unneeded cost. Still, they should make a simple dump to allow all phones to be unlocked anytime in the future, but to get that, I think we'll need to get some legislation involved (basically, any product you stop supporting, you must provide unlock keys for any encryption).
- errcorrectcode 5y agoI'll never buy an LG product if that's how they play things.
- kunagi7 5y agoCaring about reputation after closing down the whole division is a hard thing to do for them [1]. After all, they aren't manufacturing them anymore. The few ones still out there are >1 year old stock. > From [1] source: "LG will provide service support and software updates for customers of existing mobile products for a period of time which will vary by region." It they had good will they would keep the service running for 2 or 3 years instead of shutting it down after 7 months. I bought one appliance from them a few years ago, it's quite noisy and not as great as I supposed it was. With news like this one I'll just avoid buying things from their active divisions. [1] https://www.lg.com/us/press-release/lg-to-close-mobile-phone-business-worldwide https://www.lg.com/us/press-release/lg-to-close-mobile-phone...