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Which ARM computers where you installing arbitrary applications on? What flip phones? They were all locked down on the carrier side. You're still not installi
by icehawk 3y ago
Which ARM computers where you installing arbitrary applications on?
What flip phones? They were all locked down on the carrier side.
You're still not installing arbitrary applications on game consoles even now that they're running x86.
Stop speaking like that please.
- userbinator 3y agoWhat flip phones? They were all locked down on the carrier side. You seem to have missed the, admittedly brief, period where Java games on phones were extremely commonplace.
- simondotau 3y agoIf you think they were "extremely commonplace", you were living in a mid-2000s tech bubble. At best they were kinda commonplace among a narrow set of people who gave a shit, knew it was possible, happened to have devices which supported these games, happened to have a revision of the device which wasn't locked down by the carrier, and who had the time and patience to tinker with such unusable junk. If more than 1 percent of Java-capable handsets ever had third party software downloaded onto them post-purchase, I'd eat my hat. I wonder if even 1 percent of iPhones manage to get used without ever having at least one app installed from the App Store.
- userbinator 3y agohappened to have a revision of the device which wasn't locked down by the carrier In many countries, including China, all phones are unlocked by default.
- simondotau 3y agoJust because a phone is "unlocked" doesn't mean it's feature complete, or there's any mechanism to use the features which haven't been blocked by a carrier.
- wiseowise 3y ago> What flip phones? They were all locked down on the carrier side. You know, like things that were before iPhone and Android? That were running J2ME? Jar files?