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I don't quite understand why phone manufacturers see it as necessary to make it so hard to attain root.
by nex3 17y ago
I don't quite understand why phone manufacturers see it as necessary to make it so hard to attain root.
- DrJokepu 17y agoWell I suspect the primary reasons on Android and the iPhone are (a) most users don't need non-superuser functionality and all they don't want to complicate the user interface with user access control (b) root users can easily pirate paid apps obtained from the App Store / Android Market. Google actually disabled access to paid apps in the Android Market from the Google Developer Phone (which is a network-free version of G1 with root privileges).
- mbrubeck 17y agoYeah, that's basically true. One minor point: it's actually DRM-restricted apps that are disabled on the Android Dev Phone. (Android apps can be paid and non-DRM, or free and DRM-restricted.)