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A relatively low percentage of users * the total number of people who buy smartphones = a heck of a lot of users. If they manage to pull those people away from
by hobin 15y ago
A relatively low percentage of users * the total number of people who buy smartphones = a heck of a lot of users. If they manage to pull those people away from other companies (and such a future would do that), it's a big win.
- eli 15y agoBut there are lots of features that different small subsets of users would want.
- huxley 15y agoI'm not sure that it's established that people will actually buy smartphones for that reason. Take webOS which you could put into dev mode (essentially rooting) by entering the Konami code (upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart ). Didn't seem to do them a bit of good. So easy rooting may be a desirable feature but doesn't seem to sufficient feature to ignore other more important features.
- hobin 15y agoI stand corrected. I didn't know that, and indeed assumed the impact would be signifcant.