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Comment by hexagonwin

8 hours ago

They can kill custom roms and force the latest vendor firmware. If they push a shitty update that slows down the phone or something, users have no choice other than buying a new device.

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bcraven  7 hours ago

The article suggests custom roms can just be updated to be 'newer' than this.

At the moment they're 'older' and would class as a rollback, which this fuse prevents.

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