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The situation is a bit different on mobile platforms. Mostly because the field is new and changing, so content producers see an opportunity to require secure boot.

DRM/content licensing was cited by Asus as a reason to ship their Android products with locked bootloaders. I assume the same applies to Microsoft.



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