[scbzzzzz]

Make perfect sense, Thanks kind stranger. Hope it is the reason and not some corporate greed. It on me, lately my thoughts are defaulted towards corporates sabotaging consumers. I need to work on it.

The effects on custom os community is causing me worried ( I am still rocking my oneplus 7t with crdroid and oneplus used to most geek friendly) Now I am wondering if there are other ways they could achieved the same without blowing a fuse or be more transparent about this.

[zozbot234]

I don't think so. Blowing a fuse is just how the "no downgrades" policy for firmware is implemented. No different for other vendors actually, though the software usually warns you prior to installing an update that can't be manually rolled back.

[chasil]

Are you quite certain?

Google pushed a non-downgradable final update to the Pixel 6a.

I was able to install Graphene on such a device. Lineage was advertised and completely incompatible, but some hinted it would work.

[itsdesmond]

> It on me, lately my thoughts are defaulted towards corporates sabotaging consumers. I need to work on it.

You absolutely do not, this is an extremely healthy starting position for evaluating a corporations behavior. Any benefit you receive is incidental, if they made more money by worsening your experience they would.

[cess11]

As I understand it, this is a similar thing on Samsung handhelds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Knox