Apple has been fighting hard against the jailbreak community for years now. Every update Apple dishes out feels like its a direct punch to the kidney to those wishing to install third-party applications to their device. Another heavyweight, Motorola, is taking large steps to lock down their new devices as well.
Efuse Chip
With the launch of this new phone, Motorola is also making a large addition to the hardware in the form of an Efuse chip. My first thought when I heard about it was what is an Efuse chip and how does this benefit me? It is there to secure the bootloader, which starts every time your phone turns on. If it doesn’t recognize the firmware your device is running, it puts the phone into “recovery mode” and can only boot up once approved software has been loaded to the device.
Custom Firmware Foiled
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Although it sounds like this will seriously hinder those wishing to mod the new device, it does relieve previous speculation that altering the devices firmware would brick the phone. Due to the persistence of the modding community I have little doubt that this will stop them in the long run. If you would like to know more about modding droid phones please check out Droid Life.
In your opinion is Verizon following Apple down the narrow dark road that is locking down user devices, or is it genuinely trying to protect is customers?
