Google sending out update RC30 to stop root access

[benmcdonald]

Remember Android != T-Mobile G1.

Android is already open source, the G1 on the other hand is a closed device which happens to run an open source operating system. If people want a open phone then they should buy a Freerunner and flash it with Android. I'm happy with my closed G1.

[moooseman]

I would think it is still somewhat like apple. Yes the iphone has restrictions on devs, but its the same thing in having a jailbroken iphone and a jailbroken G1 and them restricting it.

[benh57]

"A security hole is not going to hurt me"?

Wow, that's just ignorant.

One way this could hurt you very much:: Any market application could use this hole to root your device, and brick it. (run telnetd, automate telnet back to the device) You'd be stuck with a bricked phone until you got a replacement, which you'd probably have to pay for. I think that'd hurt.

[K.Krstnsn]

how many threads do we need for this?

mods: instead of worrying about people posting links to compeditors, why dont we regulate these multiple threads on the same topic?

and furthermore, instead of bashing google saying its open source and they shouldnt close the hole. the hole is an exploit! its not an app designed to give root access, and google is disabling it. its a flaw!

people are ignorant.

go get an iphone.1

[360Photographer]

I never even got the first update.... wtf?

[HTC-G1]

thought this was open source.....

LIES!

[ickyfehmleh]

I would think it is still somewhat like apple. Yes the iphone has restrictions on devs, but its the same thing in having a jailbroken iphone and a jailbroken G1 and them restricting it.

I'm sorry, I was unaware that Google was disallowing certain applications onto Android, either because they didn't provide a difference between stock Google apps or because they could violate agreements Google has with carriers.

I was also unaware of the thriving application market for jailbroken Android devices, seeing as how Google makes it next to impossible to install applications from sources other than their own application store.

Perhaps you can fill the rest of us in on both of these topics.

[ickyfehmleh]

thought this was open source.....

LIES!

http://source.android.com/download

Please inform the rest of us as to how Google releasing the source code for Android fails to make it "open source".

[ayatollah]

3 ota's and ive only recieved one...ota's are cool but they need to get them out faster than they do now

[smoger]

glad to see google can move on these issues so fast. the g1 is one of the most open phones ever but if people take advantage and start flooding TMobile and HTC with warranty claims for problems they caused by tinkering with root access, you'll never see another one..