[citation][nom]dcsharp[/nom]house70 - This is a ridiculous statement, this is the same site that I regularly see apple bagged for not being open and requiring a Jailbreak to be usable (never mind the fact that I had to root my android to allow the tethering that iphones support out of the box). Yet the same people will sit there and argue that Android will always be open (Despite google now owning Moto) because there will always be ways to ways to hack it so that makes it open.LOLAndroid upgrades etc are so all over the place with most manufacturing culling support for phones within two years and the experience being totally different on every device. Personally I'm loving the competition that we now have with all of these companies having to go out of the way to woo us. And webos as opensource like a great alternative.Is it just me or are Android users more sheep like than Apple users? Certainly seem just as closed minded. Kind of reminds me of goths, soooo desperate not to conform that they do the complete opposite and they become even more laughably associated and clone like than those that they argue are sheep. Good one guys.[/citation]
1. when I was saying phones are locked, I was referring to their respective bootloaders; there are phones that have unlocked bootloaders, some that have easily un-lockable bootloaders, and then is Moto, which always tries to create a challenge to people that want them unlocked. If you own an Android phone, you should already understand that. once the bootloader is unlocked, installing custom ROMs and recoveries are easy as pie. The beauty of Android is that the code is available, hence there are plenty of custom ROMs and other tweaks to fit every need out there.
2. Comparing this to iOS is ridiculous (to use your term), because jailbreaking an iDevice only allows for non-AppStore applications to be installed; that does NOT make it a "custom iOS".
3. the fact that you needed to expand the functionality to gain, say, tethering is only because retarded wireless operators chose to cripple the OS to their liking. This is akin to complaining that a demo is not as functional as a fully paid application on a PC.
As a matter of fact, if Android were to be a closed OS, operators could not fiddle with the functional aspect of it, could not integrate bloatware in ROMs, making it hard to remove, and so on. At the same time, you would not have devs out there capable of creating beautifully functional ROMs for people like you and me (not without infringing on some closed EULA). I for one prefer the openness and customization of Android to the closeness of iOS.
Same goes for the updates; don't believe for a second that the operators don't have the latest pure Android code available; they choose to delay the release because they want to make sure their restrictions are again and again integrated successfully into their crippled ROMs.
4. calling people names just goes to show the extent to which you are capable of sustaining an argument.
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