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This doesn't seem _that_ bad. I was under the impression that it would be up to the OEM who is putting Lollipop on their own devices, anyway. By providing the o
by chrisfosterelli 12y ago
This doesn't seem _that_ bad. I was under the impression that it would be up to the OEM who is putting Lollipop on their own devices, anyway. By providing the option they can ensure they don't get tons of heat from OEMs who haven't prepared their hardware for this.
It sounds like their policy is still default encryption for the Nexus 6, with the plan to make all Android devices support default encryption eventually. To me, that's actually better news than I had originally thought it was.
- skywhopper 12y agoThis seems right to me. The headline claim that Google was going to "require" encryption on all Lollipop devices contradicts the linked Google blog posts as well as Ars's own headline from when the announcement was made[1]. "On by default" is not the same as "required of OEMs". No one should be surprised that the OEMs might change the defaults, as that was sort of the point of Android at least at first. [1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/android-l-will-have-device-encryption-on-by-default/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/android-l-will-have-d...