alt Hacker NewsWhy is this sad? I’m having a hard time understanding the thought you are communicating. It seems cool that a CTO had fun and that motivated him to enable ADB for everyone?
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as other has said, it is sad that it took that a CTO had fun to open it up, and not the rest of the public discourse about things like this.
I'm happy he had fun and all for him making decisions based on it. But it shouldn't have taken this.
Why didn’t it occur to someone that this would be fun to do within the CTO having to realize this
Because it could’ve just as easily never happened despite how simple of a feature it is to enable. That happens all the time. Tons of “useless” tech out there that can be made useful with 5min of effort but the incentives aren’t there, so they end up in landfills.
The default position should be trying to make devices useful as long as possible, even if they want to qualify it with “so long as it’s sufficiently reasonable to do so.”
Just that the default reality is the hardware you buy belonging to someone else, who only really sold you a license to use the hardware on limited terms until the manufacturer drops support