Your incorrect on both accounts here
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Originally Posted by scottjl
actually, given their upcoming licensing copy protection scheme, they can. also, i've read that AT&T wants to lock down android apps to only their one official store for the phones they sell. microsoft is the only place to get windows mobile 7 apps. game over.
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1) Apple is preventing side loading of applications. They still allow you to download from the Google store (NOTE: ATT does not have a Google Market).
And yes there are apps that allow one to sideload w/o having to root/jailbreak your device, but don't consider this an option.
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Originally Posted by scottjl
forgot to mention motorola locking you down on the droid x with self-destruction firmware!
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This is also incorrect. The bootloader detects if the ROM installed is different from an official release if so it will fail to boot until the original ROM is reloaded. You can still root/jailbreak the device.
On both accounts I think this is wrong they should not lock out device in any way. Their argument is valid, though I disagree with it. Sidloading apps and installing kernels increase the chance of destabilizing the device and they are trying to reduce the number of client calls.
However your missing one major point. I still have choices, these are a few vendors, and I'm choosing to go with Verizon and Samsung because they are not so restrictive. What are you choices with Apple(AT&T and a black iphone).
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Originally Posted by scottjl
is android more open than apple's offerings? right now it is. but i doubt that will continue in the long term. it's only going to take a few more apps like the one noted in the article to scare customers off and force companies to start locking things down fast. no one is going to want to sell a phone that hands over your identity to a thief. not when it launches class-action lawsuits against the carrier, the manufacturer and google.
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Funny Google just opened their API even more.