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Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by godelski on Saturday August 14, 2021 @01:45AM (#28178361)
It really seems like there are a lot of bad faith arguments in this thread. Of all places I expect Hacker News to understand that you can put custom open sourced operating systems on a phone (aka: flashing). If I can't talk nerdy here, then where can I?
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Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by doublerabbit on Saturday August 14, 2021 @06:11AM (#28179525)
Google already makes effort to stop flashing of their phones. Just because you can now doesn't mean you can in the future. What do you do then?
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Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by godelski on Saturday August 14, 2021 @02:43PM (#28182993)
What efforts? Pixels have always been the easiest to flash. Phones have always been hacked. Everything is always hacked. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by renata on Saturday August 14, 2021 @08:14PM (#28185089)
The only effort I've seen, after rooting all my phones for eight years, is the recent move to locking things like Google Pay behind an unrooted phone.
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