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Originally Posted by Karl
Samsung could have just said no we dont lock our product
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yeah that makes business sense...
Choice 1
VZW "we won't sell your phone unless you lock the bootloader because we're bitches"
Sammy "fuck you, no SGS3 for you, we don't care if we lose hundreds of millions of dollars"
Choice 2
VZW "we won't sell your phone unless you lock the bootloader because we're bitches"
Sammy "well we can either lose millions of sales on the largest network in America to make a point or just lock the damn bootloader and release an off-contract developer edition to try to make up for it, and in the meantime, we will continue to have unlocked bootloaders on every other network because we're developer friendly and not trying to be Apple like HTC is"
I would have made the same choice if I owned a multi billion dollar conglomerate. Verizon is to blame here, they order the product a certain way or else, Samsung just fulfills orders. HTC actively locks bootloaders on all networks and has their garbage "HTC dev we void your warranty and this only applies to some devices"
I will keep my galaxy nexus over anything HTC has to offer
