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ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones(www.androidauthority.com)

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TL;DR

  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.
  • As per the company’s technical support team, Zenfone 10 and Zenfone 9 users
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XEAL@lemm.ee
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ASUS is apparently killing the posibility of me being a potential customer of their smartphones.

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IDeserveToBeLoved@szmer.info
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Rooting users are only a small percentage of all users so they probably won’t even notice unfortunately.

sent from rooted phone

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PunnyName@lemmy.world
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Doesn’t matter if I ever want to root my phone or not.

It’s mine.

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TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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People who just want a vanilla experience likely all buy Samsung.

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brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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Samsung goes so hard with their proprietary apps and intrusive ads. The closest to vanilla I’ve gotten is a pixel phone.

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Magiwarriorx@lemmy.world
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ASUS annihilated the possibility I’d ever buy any ASUS product after the way they handled the 7800X3D/AM5 VoC issue. I had never really noticed, but a pretty big swathe of my tech came from them (laptop, monitor, and motherboard among others) but no more.

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