Rooted Devices Blocked From Android Movie Market 321
tekgoblin writes "Google has released the Android Movie Market to Android tablets with Honeycomb 3.1 and in a few weeks for users with Froyo and Gingerbread. However Google has stipulated that the Android Movie Market will only be available to Android devices which are not rooted. So if you have a rooted Android device, don't expect to download anything from the Android Movie Market any time soon (or at least until a workaround is found)."
Re:3.99 are you out of your mind? (Score:4, Interesting)
Little overlap (Score:4, Interesting)
On the other hand, these are also the most tech savvy users who might actually be swayed by a convenient and cheap (and legal) movie downloading system. Certainly I used to buy music from a certain Russian site because the cost was worth the convenience of high quality music on demand.
Re:(Or at least until a workaround is found) (Score:5, Interesting)
"Hello." -Carl Sagan
As I said above, "open" is a state, (Score:3, Interesting)
not an intention. A door is not "open" when it is shut simply because you intend for it to be open. Shut is shut.
Android's source is open.
Android as a platform is nowhere near it.
Techies care a great deal about the former.
Everybody else only cares about the latter.
But techies have done a good job of convincing everyone else that open source code for Android OS == open platform in the marketplace, in practice.
And the debates rage here on Slashdot as if there was some question about whether Android, in reality, in the marketplace, as a series of devices and carriers, is open. It isn't. It simply isn't.
But of course you can have the source.
Here you go, Grandma!
What's this?
It's the source code to Android! Can you feel the freedom pulsing through your veins?
Um, can I just watch a movie?
No, sorry, can't do that. Just read the source. SOOOO OPEN!