[HTC One X] Andy:
S-OFF has very little to do with the development, it has an impact yes, but not to the extent you are trying to imply. Most cases users want S-OFF so they have a backup incase things go wrong and need to return the device for repairs. They could flash a stock HBOOT and revert to a "LOCKED" state, HTC would never know that they had unlocked, and would honor the warranty in all cases.

The other side to S-OFF, flashing a boot.img via recovery and radios via fastboot. Is it that much of an inconvenience to flash a boot.img from fastboot? In most cases, I'd hazard a guess at 90%, users have to plug in their handsets to copy across ROMs to the sdcard, flash the boot.img then. No real inconvenience. Yes I know that restoring backups & boot.img's in recovery is the only valid point to having S-OFF.

Being a moderator has nothing to do with the points I'm making. How am I ignoring the community by answering your concerns? I really much doubt that Samsung has gone from strength to strength purely based on pushing JB to the GS3 or updating other handsets quicker than HTC. By that logic, Nexus devices would be more "mainstream" and ASUS (who are very quick with updates) would have a major market share.

Your backtracking, by your own admission you listened to the "fan boys". If I want sound technical advice on a particular subject, I'd seek out the subject matter expert, not a bunch of users who will push HTC at you regardless of your question. If you'd seen the length of time it took for S-OFF on the HTC Vivid, and the method to achieve it you would have known HTC are really pushing the security to boundaries that developers here and on other development forums are struggling to break. No need to ask a fan boy.

I'm sorry to hear about your negative experience with HTC and your previous One X, but there is nothing we, nor anyone here can do about it.

I don't consider myself a fan boy by any stretch, I've recommended other manufacturers/OS's to family members based on their needs & requirements not my bias towards a particular company.

I hope I dismissed your view of me as a fan boy in my previous reply. I'm not defending HTC, I've never posted dismissing any users faults as theirs or as complete fallacy. I have defended HTC's view on unlocking the bootloader MAY invalidate the warranty. But that goes in line with my view, "If you cannot afford to replace it, don't tinker with it".

Again, I'm sorry to hear you have this issue, I have never experienced it before on any stock HTC firmware.

Yes you are more balanced, this is obvious by your language used, and they way you structure your replies. But that does not mean you are correct in what you post.

This falls down to a lack of research on your part. If you had researched you would have known (depending on how soon you purchased after release) that HTC did not remove S-ON by unlocking the bootloader. Answering your particular scenario, you purchased a house under a leasehold agreement. You own the house, but need permission to alter it. Whereas a freehold means do what you want, subject to local planning and heritage legislation. Had you checked, you would of known.

Again, apologies to others reading this post and thinking WTF. My position at XDA is to keep the forums friendly, tidy and to promote decorum. This cannot be achieved by simply "deleting" or "locking threads, or by censoring them as this does not help matters.