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I think he or she means "hackable by intent", which seems to be a dying category.

• veidr 14y ago
  But that is the entire thing that makes Google's phones fundamentally better than most other phones[1]! They are, by design, entirely hackable. If you wish, you can get root on your phone; they explicitly make them this way. You're "allowed" to. No security exploits needed. And, if they are true to their word--and there's no reason to think they won't be--the same will go for their computer-glasses. [1]: EDIT: I mean that they are objectively, indisputably better in this fundamental way (of being expressly hackable by design). I am not saying Google's phones are better in all ways.
  • saurik 14y ago
    Well, when they come out in the end and are easily hackable (they provide stock images, they provide the source code for everything in a way that we can compile, etc.) then that will be great, but as long as I'm having to use exploits to easily get root on the device (which I did) I'm going to say "jailbreak" ;P.
    • veidr 14y ago
      Yes, I wouldn't dispute that. I was mainly replying to the notion that hackable devices are a "dying category". Clearly that is something we are gradually losing, in this age of the DMCA and locked-down app stores. But Google is one of the few major smartphone/table companies bucking that trend. Hopefully, this will continue to be the case, although they have been slow sometimes in getting it all sorted out when new hardware comes out...