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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

Suggestion: If it is *always* possible to "upgrade" to the previous upgrade
image, or to the factory image, without any user data loss, then carriers
would likely be more willing to push out updates in a timely manner. If
things start falling apart, they can either push out the previous upgrade
image again, or they can tell customers to push a button that upgrades them
to the previous image (or factory). Less liability for a rotten update,
since all harm can be undone. With Android, if they push an update out and
it causes terrible battery life or any other negative symptom, they can't
undo it, and they can't downgrade those phones.


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
> On Di, 2013-06-18 at 13:18 -0500, Josh Leverette wrote:
> >
> ... lots of valid stuff about android ...
> >
>
> while i expect that pre-installed carrier sold devices *will* be locked
> down, i also expect that we will have open images on cdimage.ubuntu.com
> for most/all supported devices that are sold with ubuntu pre-installed
> so you should have the opportunity to install this onto your
> carrier-locked phone to get a full ubuntu experience ...
>
> it would be utopic to belive that you will find many carriers that allow
> a fully open phone being sold under their brand (if canonical would
> force them into that they would just go back to android) but there will
> be options to work around this :)
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
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Sincerely,
    Josh