A little over a year ago, Verizon announced their intention to create a multi-platform app store for devices running on their network. This was met with a decidedly Chilly response because customers and commenter’s feared that Verizon would supplant native app stores to push their own.
Fast foreward to today. Verizon sucessfully launched their app store on Blackberry, with those devices still shipping with the native Blackberry App World installed, and now they want to do the same thing to Android. And no, this isn’t the end of the world (At least, it doesn’t have to be).
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With the recent posts about Locked Boot loaders, Custom ROMS, and the “when will we get froyo.” questions, a lot of new people are asking what rooting is, and more importantly, why should they care about it. Rooting can be a bit confusing to understand at times because unless you have a linux computer, you’ve most likely never had to deal with it before. I’m not a computer programmer, or an android programmer, but I spent a lot of time reading about rooting before I started to try it so hopefully I can Clarify some things.
I have the Motorola Droid. I love the Motorola Droid. The thing is a workhorse and will take almost anything you can throw at it, including bleeding edge custom roms. But with the discovery of the DroidX’s locked boot loader, the future of customized Motorola phones looks grim.
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