I’ve always followed this guide on the xda forums to patch my own revanced YouTube APK, rather than downloading a prepatched one from somewhere else. Worked well enough for me so far, but I am sure there are plenty of other options to achieve the same thing.

That’s the thing, it’s not centralized

But who is able to mint/create those cards? Anyone or just the company? That is what I was primarily getting at.

if the company hosting it closes it’s doors, you still have something in your ownership that corresponds to your cards,

Yes, proof that you owned cards in a now defunct game. The question is how much value is left at that point.

opening up the possibility of others re-implementing everything.

Barring copyright/IP law allowing it, or are we disregarding that? If someone wanted to take over they might just buy out the old company and take over.

And even when starting from scratch they’d have to evaluate if honoring/adopting the existing tokens would be worth it (would give an existing player base, but in return you don’t get any money from them and probably less than from a customer that starts from scratch).

A third option would be some form of foss project reviving the game. But the game seems independent of the blockchain aspect, which only tracks card ownership. Why would any such effort want to adopt a system build on artificial scarcity and profit?

Could you elaborate a bit how blockchain enables something unique here? I see that it enables trade between users, but if a single company controls the game and I assume supply of new cards, does the blockchain aspect for trading really matter?

Trading itself is basic and doesn’t need a blockchain. I guess with it you have it implemented in a public and tamper proof way, but that second part doesn’t seem to matter to me if the source is centralized.

So what exactly is gained from this approach over just your average ingame auction house?

Yeah, even when considering them briefly that was an absolute deal breaker to me. 4/6 is still far less than the 7 years you get from Google/Samsung (at least their higher end models) or however long iPhones get updates, but similar to some competitors already mentioned in this thread from Xiaomi or vivo.

And I guess many will upgrade within 6 years anyways, whereas with 2 years it was basically guaranteed that the devices will spend a good part (maybe even a majority) of their lifetime without any software and security updates.

Another aspect imo is software update policy. I guess now with new EU legislation it should improve, but in the past you got like 2 years OS, 3 security updates? Even on their flagship models.

That’s just terrible, even more so when you weren’t buying them at release.

As always with debates on the internet nuances get lost and things get painted more black and white.

And they still deserve credit for having invented the concept and designed the bulk of the bricks.

No idea if the other comment that they stole it is true, but looking at the wealth of the owner family I’d say they got more than enough credit. They are set for many generations to come. At some point ideas have to become common good for others to also build upon.

Lego as a brand does imo substantially benefit from positive associations such as heritage, sentimentality, and other positive attributes. Otherwise how would they be able to demand such premium prices.

So I would see it less as them being “dinged” for this action, but more as them losing some of those privileges. Something they are not inherently entitled to.

Imo the title falsely implies that Lego not being a US company means they are completely independent and unaffected by US actions.

Lego presumably does substantial business in the US and thus is beholden to US jurisdiction and the whims of Trump to some degree. Them dropping diversity and inclusion from their reports just shows their priorities. However on that note Lego still being family owned lets us pin this decision more squarely on some particular individuals, rather than the usual vague mass of shareholders.