{"id":263,"date":"2011-06-07T00:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T05:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2011-06-07T00:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T05:44:57","slug":"samsung-embraces-hackers-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/uncategorized\/samsung-embraces-hackers-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung embraces hackers too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.commobile\/android-mobile\/htcs-new-bootloader-policy\/\">HTC&#8217;s new bootloader policy<\/a>, in which HTC took a surprisngly refreshing stance against locking users out of their software. That&#8217;s a big deal since custom roms and other modifications are half of the fun of the Android camp. We ended off saying we hope others will follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m proud to say that at least one other leading Android manufacturer stepped in with a bold move to embrace the hack\/mod\/dev community. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/atinm\/status\/77754348758773760\">post on twitter <\/a>, one of the members of the Cyanogen Mod developer team was given a shiny new Galaxy S 2 directly from Samsung in order to start developing and porting over the popular aftermarket ROM.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, that really means manufacturers are starting to recognize the\u00a0importance\u00a0of community supported devices!<\/p>\n<p>If only Apple would follow suit. Heck, even Motorola needs to take a lesson from this. I applaud you, Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/cyanogenmod-coming-galaxy-sii-thanks-samsung\">AndroidCentral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we posted about HTC&#8217;s new bootloader policy, in which HTC took a surprisngly refreshing stance against locking users out of their software. That&#8217;s a big deal since custom roms and other modifications are half of the fun of the Android camp. We ended off saying we hope others will follow suit. Well, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}