Yes, I’m the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I’m sorry.

But other than that, I don’t hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

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    11 year ago

    The vendor blobs in custom ROMs come from the stock vendor ROM. When the vendor stops publishing their stock ROM, the custom ROM’s will also stop coming. In some cases some BLOBs can be taken from similar devices that might be supported a bit longer but I believe this is quite rare.

    The ROM itself still gets updates through the AOSP but vendor BLOBs stay where they are and open source devs can do little to nothing about that.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Couldn’t find anything about that online, could you please give me the source of that information?

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        21 year ago

        I homebrew the ROM on my personal phone and I can tell you from first hand experience that you need the vendor dirs extracted from the OEM ROM. You can read up on that on the wiki pages for building any device ROM.

        You can also come to that conclusion the other way around: How else would you (or LOS maintainers) get your hands on proprietary blobs full of secret sauce that vendors sometimes even try to actively block access to?

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          Yeah this is a good point. Tbh I wish there was right to repair legislation around this. If you’re not going to maintain it, you should be required to open source it, and you’re not allowed to brick people’s devices as a workaround.

          Nothing is keeping apple from dropping support in the same way, I’m kinda surprised how long they maintain support.