"Rooting" was never something I was going to take a chance on. I'm not a techie. At most, I knew that Android is not an operating system but a kernel of Linux. My Android phone was OK as it was until I noticed I was running low on internal memory. And the phone was really starting to lag. Thats when I started looking around and discovered an easy way to modify (mod) my phone's rom. What caught my interest was that you could save apps to the sd card. That way, you save your phone's internal memory which would otherwise be eaten up by the apps you install. So I took the plunge and rooted my phone using Cyanogen's flasher and updater. Very satisfying. I recovered a lot of internal memory. Better, I was able to update to ver 1.6 (Donut) from ver 1.5 (Cupcake) ahead of the official release.
It turns out there have been 30,000 persons who have been installing Cyanogen's mod and Google finally took notice and sent Cyanogen a notice to cease and desist. The CD refers to original google apps which are part of the Google Experience such as Gmaps, .android Market, Gtalk etc.. To know what the whole brouhaha is about, just search "google+cyanogen".
Lets see how this plays out, eventually. As for me, if what I've got on my phone stays, I'm ok until someone creates an app that will allow me to create and edit documents on my android phone. Thats when I'll start to figure things out.
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