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0 pointsuserbinator10y ago0 comments

When your friend sees your non-factory clean S6, he associates all those custom features with an S6, and not a rooted S6.

Wouldn't the fact that "you can do all these cool things once it's rooted" increase the perceived value and help drive sales and push towards manufacturers making it easier to root? IMHO the big selling point is all the apps, not just what software came with the hardware.

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donkeyd10y ago

If you apply this reasoning to iPhones, Jailbreaking should also increase the preceived value of an iPhone. Yet, jailbroken iPhones are the most vulnerable iPhones on the market, so it could actually be detrimental.

tempestn10y ago

Not if people mess up their phones I suppose. Personally all I really want is proper full image backups, and a few little tweaks like the ability to turn off the stupid sound whenever it's plugged in and proper nighttime colour filtering.

nathancahill10y ago

Exactly the same reasons I jailbreak.

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