Okay. We get it. For chrissakes, Motorola itself said "go buy something else if you want to hack Android". What else do you want?
Motorola has actually been honest enough about this to tell you to buy from someone else.
It makes no good sense for Motorola to burn cash on making their phones harder to hack when they don't need to - it's only managerial paranoia that leads to this, as best I can tell.
Companies like Motorola know most of their customers are apathetic to the needs of hackers and look to the bottom line. Apps will still run on the phone, so customers will still have that. This is a win for Motorola in the market they serve.
The best reasons I've read for why Apple is so hard on jailbreaking is (a) carrier agreements not liking unlocks and (b) pirating of apps. I find these reasons a bit more compelling, although like I said I'd like to see more information about it.
The Moto decision is just a tiny thing that probably won't affect much in the grand scheme of things. I just have an issue with the fundamentals. It's a hot button issue for me. ^_^
What you mean by "ease of repair"? How is the ROM getting busted up that you need to reflash the phone?
I don't get how the NES was designed for "maintainability" or "longevity" while the XBox was not. They're both disposable consumer products.
A company that creates a device and directly states "buy something else if you want to modify this" probably didn't make that power connector a replaceable part because it was "easier to just affix it with 2cm of glue."
It's a fundamental issue with the attitude MOTO is presenting.
In all likelihood, Junior is going to throw the phone away and get an ad-subsidized Droid 7 for free. Let's face it, all of this hardware is disposable now. Ask your local VCR repairman.
why do you think throwing away, rather than improving, something that so much energy, material and other resources went into creating, is a good idea?
i replace devices when they are no longer of use to me, or if something significantly more useful comes along. actually useful not hype.
i got my current phone in 2005: i only have one phone, and this phone works well. i've repaired this phone: a year ago it fell in water and stopped working so i stripped it down, cleaned it up, checked for obviously blown circuits, replaced bits until it worked again.