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Originally Posted by perdurabo
The problem with this device is that ASUS licenses the Android source code from Google. Their programmers then modify and add software to this as part of their product personalization. So what you end up with is something much different than the Android came out of Google (and Android security isn't great to begin with). So my next questions would be:
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I was aware of this, but didn't see the impact.
Isn't this much like what most of the PC makers do?? They lease a copy of WIN xx and them modify it to fit their machine. They do so much that you can't take a store-bought retail copy of WIN xx and install it.
This is one of my major bitches about IBM & Dell. In the case of IBM Thinkpads, you can generally re-install from the ghost partition. Dell sometimes gives you a copy of the serialized OS unique to your system,, sometimes not..
It goes way back, When we released the early versions of DOS, within a couple months there were four or five companies making their own DOS,, including MS & Gates..
I guess I just assumed business as usual..
