By TeMPOraL
> Android device makers from China maybe haven’t been told about their own inability to pump out clones. Somebody should let them know.
Oh they know about it. They just don’t give a fuck. What is the US going to do, sue them?
(Actually, the Chinese government started cracking down on that industry, because it pisses off the West too much and thus “hurts economy”.)
As for the rest of your comment, this is the golden age we’re having, but we’re seeing more and more signs that the big companies – both technology and media ones – are trying to put an end to it. One reason is that “cost of unreliability can easily exceed the cost of the device, many times over, and the single biggest point of failure are trojan horses & operator errors.” The other is that it’s easier to make money off people if you lock them down behind dumbed down devices and your own propertiary ecosystem. Yet another is that people like media but don’t like to pay MAFIAA for it. Surveillance is also a an issue. This all adds up in a way that threatens the future hackability of stuff.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10398129
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