For years the big fans of Android operating system taking social networking to preach the new faith. True faith OS open who came to us at the dawn of the threat of the iPhone and BlackBerry. Just when it seemed that was beating Symbian Windows Mobile … other closed operating system hovered over the troops of freedom.
Android, until version 4 or 4.1, was an immature operating system, a lot of patch patch stacked in search of meaning. Your main weapon was a tireless infantry hackers professional and amateur who played, changed, software personalizaban terminals looking for the perfect trade. Innovation surely, the eternal pursuit of reform and develop the operating system was an obsession for many.
these software modifications when taking a sufficient scale, they were called “ROM”. The term, for its acronym in English, defines the read-only memory. Although physically I was in the same chip to allow writing, the operating system is responsible for making the user could not change that part. In a sense it became synonymous with the operating system itself.
Although there was customizations caring-or design does not modificaban-, and allowed others made real atrocities.
free time, technical skill, and possibilities created a primordial soup that proposed the perfect conditions for industry ROM will hatch . Some of the most popular, such as CyanogenMod, have evolved into large software companies. A year ago, Cyanogen received 70 million dollars from curiously Microsoft. Today, Cyanogen is already a player in the industry and comes installed on many smartphones. The hobby of Steve Kondik, aka Cyanogen, its founder, became a major business.
Inevitable decline
But the ROM passed to a second, or even further back. Several factors have contributed to this fall in favor of the ROM, so that many users previously spent days personalizing their phones with software made by other enthusiasts stop doing it.
1 . Android is already very, very mature. Of course, has its problems, but the instability of past versions as Froyo or GingerBread while it was parked. For many enthusiasts, it is more than enough. Or at least, it does not worth it, tinker with the smartphone.
2. Manufacturers protect more the system. Although there are some who have promoted the bootloader open so that any user can change things, normal has always been frowned upon by manufacturers. The inclusion of additional internal security measures such as fingerprint readers or Samsung Knox, has pulled back to many enthusiasts who wanted to continue to enjoy these features.
3. customizable parts are no longer require tinkering. These are easily obtainable from within the Google Play and other app stores. Other not, special mention for Xposed, the last major reason why some still fingering his terminal.
It is true that there are many who still use methods rooteo hobby, desire and requirement even for their own needs. At the end of the day is your smartphone, and do what you want with it , but for many, the ROM ceased to be the “necessary evil” in which to invest hours. Despite the freedom of action that provides Android, many users choose to buy a particular hardware from software brings factory.
By the way, let’s face it, most ROM gave more work they solved. And the average design was -is – very, very ugly. With Lollipop or Android M in our terminals, do not miss him.
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