Yeah my exact thoughts. Repairable phones are mostly useless if the vendor blobs don’t get updated anymore after x years. Until we have an open ecosystem, as we have on desktop PCs, repairable phones are only good on paper.
The bar is so low, all they have to do is leave the bootloader unlocked, which they’ve done by accident already, and everyone would be happy and give them praise.
I don’t know what they gain by keeping the bootloader locked, maybe somebody thinks it’ll force new phone sales?
Yeah my exact thoughts. Repairable phones are mostly useless if the vendor blobs don’t get updated anymore after x years. Until we have an open ecosystem, as we have on desktop PCs, repairable phones are only good on paper.
The bar is so low, all they have to do is leave the bootloader unlocked, which they’ve done by accident already, and everyone would be happy and give them praise.
I don’t know what they gain by keeping the bootloader locked, maybe somebody thinks it’ll force new phone sales?