There’s still Chinese phones which do their own thing. Either way worst case scenario there’s still old phones that can be picked up and used for several more years.
Even old phones like the Pixel 1 is still getting updates from LineageOS. So there’s lot of old phones that’s released since then that can be used for custom roms without having to get the latest and greatest.
being able to lock your bootloader should be a bare minimum requirement. what’s the point of pushing security updates if all that can be bypassed by tampering with the firmware?
OEMs are just too lazy to spend the extra bucks on the cryptography chips and they don’t let you relock the bootloader because they are conservative in their approach to security
And that’s all assuming the few OEMs that still have unlocked bootloaders will continue to do so.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Google starts requiring locked bootloaders in some future version of Android in the name of “security”.
There’s still Chinese phones which do their own thing. Either way worst case scenario there’s still old phones that can be picked up and used for several more years.
Even old phones like the Pixel 1 is still getting updates from LineageOS. So there’s lot of old phones that’s released since then that can be used for custom roms without having to get the latest and greatest.
you can use adb without unlocking bootloader
Yes, that’s always been the case. And?
being able to lock your bootloader should be a bare minimum requirement. what’s the point of pushing security updates if all that can be bypassed by tampering with the firmware?
OEMs are just too lazy to spend the extra bucks on the cryptography chips and they don’t let you relock the bootloader because they are conservative in their approach to security