&gt; <i>Android device makers from China maybe haven&#x27;t been told about their own inability to pump out clones. Somebody should let them know.</i><p>Oh they know about it. They just don&#x27;t give a fuck. What is the US going to do, sue them?<p>(Actually, the Chinese government started cracking down on that industry, because it pisses off the West too much and thus &quot;hurts economy&quot;.)<p>As for the rest of your comment, this is the golden age we&#x27;re having, but we&#x27;re seeing more and more signs that the big companies - both technology and media ones - are trying to put an end to it. One reason is that &quot;cost of unreliability can easily exceed the cost of the device, many times over, and the single biggest point of failure are trojan horses &amp; operator errors.&quot; The other is that it&#x27;s easier to make money off people if you lock them down behind dumbed down devices and your own propertiary ecosystem. Yet another is that people like media but don&#x27;t like to pay MAFIAA for it. Surveillance is also a an issue. This all adds up in a way that threatens the future hackability of stuff.