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Re:Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020) by phendrenad2 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:09PM (#27705512)
Is it really expanding though? The market for devices is also expanding. Don't confuse absolute numbers with relative numbers. Of course I have encountered devices that don't allow sideloading, are you saying that is expanding also? Or has "rooting" always been something many carriers and manufacturers sought to disable?
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Re:Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020) by josephcsible on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:50PM (#27705872)
In both absolute and relative terms. Basically every new computing device that's not a desktop or laptop is locked down in some way, and even some laptops are locked down too (e.g., Windows RT on ARM laptops).
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Re:Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020) by phendrenad2 on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:22AM (#27709465)
All Android devices are locked down? That's not true, most Android devices can be "rooted" quite easily.
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