Comment 4 for bug 1473519

Hi greatwhite,

I'm sorry to hear your decision. While this is outside the scope of this bug, allow me to say that the file system is read-only for a number of reasons (security, image delta-based updates), but you are free to fiddle with it and mount it read-write:
$ adb shell
$ sudo mount -o rw,remount /

Note that this simply means a delta-based update is not guaranteed to work, but there are ways to reset the image to pristine one, without using your user data. Regarding headless processes, it is all in the name of good power management. Currently the phone goes into deep sleep, we don't have such concepts as Android service for instance, for non-confined apps (although push, for instance, can temporarily wake up the apps). If you would like to provide feedback on the phone in general, please do not hesitate to e-mail <email address hidden> , thank you.