By John Gruber
Streaks: The to-do list that helps you form good habits. For iPhone, iPad and Mac.
John Biggs at AOL/MobileCrunch:
Some excited rooters at the XDA Dev Forum tried to root the G2 — namely to unlock the software so they can add their own programs and control the OS — only to find that there is a built-in lock in the G2 hardware that returns the handset to the stock state upon rooting.
“Openness” jokes aside, there’s an argument to be made that this is a security feature.
★ Wednesday, 6 October 2010