Lucky them. Still, above the normal user profile. IOW, buy a consumer product, use it according to the user manual that came with it. Anything beyond that is tinkering, hacking, whatever you call it for that particular product. Flashing is not in the user manual, and not supported under warranty, do at your own risk.
In the end, it's okay to compare different ROMs, or Android vs. iPhone flashing. You're on the same playing field. But a flashed one vs. another one that is stock isn't. You can no longer compare the two when talking about the overall market, because only a minuscule percentage of people will be flashing. Oh yes, tens of thousands of people are flashing, but out of tens of millions of smartphones sold every year.
“In the end, it’s okay to compare different ROMs, or Android vs. iPhone flashing. You’re on the same playing field. But a flashed one vs. another one that is stock isn’t. You can no longer compare the two when talking about the overall market, because only a minuscule percentage of people will be flashing. Oh yes, tens of thousands of people are flashing, but out of tens of millions of smartphones sold every year.”
Yes, and those people that don’t must be OK with their gimped phones. I’m not. Ignorance really is bliss.