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Originally Posted by shane6374
You are correct about the licencing, and I was speaking of the cdma tp2. Still, the tp2 was more difficult than it's predicecesors. Now the phones are getting even more difficult.
Wasn't it htc that tried to shut down shipped roms last year?
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Shut down shipped ROMs? I am not aware of that. HTC is known for "leaking" ROMs ahead of time, and then those ROMs getting rooted before they are even released. See the Evo's "leaked" Gingerbread ROM for a recent example of this. I honestly can't think of HTC ever trying to shut anything down. And that is really saying something, considering sites like xda (and even this site) got to be pretty huge by hacking HTC software and letting users freely share it. It's been going on for many years now, and I can't think of a single time HTC ever complained about it or tried to stop it.
I actually remember a few times when Microsoft tried to put a stop to it when people were sharing unreleased versions of WinMo (which were likely leaked from the same people leaking the HTC ROMs throughout the years). But HTC has never tried to hinder development.
I can understand the carriers telling HTC to lock the phones down or they won't carry them. I would be shocked if that hasn't happened. But I can also see HTC locking the phones down to satisfy the carriers, and then "leaking" the tools to unlock the phones.
I'm not the slightest bit worried about not being able to hack/customize/whatever an HTC phone. It has never happened in the past, so I don't see any reason to worry about it happening in the future. And if it did happen, lots of customers (myself included) would drop HTC and move on to another manufacturer.