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> The reality of the Android market is that Samsung makes 98% of the profit, and the vast majority of flagship devices are being made by the handful of companies that put the most effort into locking down their devices.

You know you can buy an international Galaxy S8 and unlock the bootloader without any exploits, right? That part works the same way as Nexus / Pixel devices on the S8 variants that can be unlocked (i.e. not US carrier versions, etc.). The difference is that Samsung doesn't give you 100% of their OS sources especially on the day that they release each update and they don't support verified boot for a third party operating system. They also revoke the warranty if you do it, but they permit it. They explicitly implemented a standard unlocking procedure for their consumer devices and it's not in any way forbidden by the terms of use other than voiding the warranty, which is sad but not exactly unfair. Their attempt to void the warranty is not valid in everywhere anyway. They still often need to honor standard warranty requirements unless it's demonstrated that the user is at fault for what went wrong.