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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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
  • XEAL@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    ASUS is apparently killing the posibility of me being a potential customer of their smartphones.

    • IDeserveToBeLoved@szmer.info
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      1 year ago

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

      sent from rooted phone

        • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

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

          • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Samsung unlocked is free to root, and they even provide the tools to do so. Most models supported in the free distros as well.

            • Hyacin@lemmy.ca
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              1 year ago

              Yeah, but then you break Knox, and can’t EVER fix it. The phone becomes instantly worthless for resale.

          • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            By vanilla I mean the most basic for consumers, not debloated factory default, which is what someone who roots their phone might want. The average customer is definitely not bothering with that,

    • Magiwarriorx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.