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Originally Posted by Paragon
There are several reasons why HTC would care. First and foremost is that it interferes with their marketing plan. HTC, and many manufactures control the sales of their newest products by controlling the software that is available for the previous version. This is simple marketing 101. The more people with access to the latest software version the fewer people who will by the newest product. I'm sure HTC would have many other reasons as well.
They do care about this very much. With each generation of their devices the more difficult it is to unlock them. The first XDA that HTC released was very simple to flash a new ROM. You simply put it into bootloader and said yes to dumping the ROM onto your storage card. You then put the card in the device you wanted to upgrade, put it into bootloader and it picked up the file on the card and automatically started to flash the ROM. The next version had what was know as a country code. You had to dump the ROM, then using a hex editor you had to edit the first few line....and so on. HTC and others put a lot of effort into securing their ROMs.
Dave
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Yes they do..but not so that you won't break them..it is more to appease the carriers cause the carriers do not want it broken. HTC makes you buy their next generation of devices by putting in minimum ram, minimum rom and 3 year old cpus >.>...HTC is in no way marketing it to us directly, they are marketing it to the carriers as far as US is concerned. The CDMA versions are always custom built to the specs of the CDMA carriers as it is not their standard release.