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by zinekeller 1630 days ago
> It feels like baked in obsolescence or supreme confidence that you’ll be around forever to send out the settings.

Please pass that message to RIM/BlackBerry. And yes, they did feel like that, until Apple have attacked.

As an aside, Most Android phones below ICS are now also "dead" (https://support.google.com/android/answer/10313246?hl=en, note that Honeycomb do not have phone services baked in) and cannot be provisioned even for very basic service (except for emergency calls).