FeekennDarv on Nostr: Because most of this excellent hardware on smartphones is not open. It relies on ...
Because most of this excellent hardware on smartphones is not open. It relies on magical binary blobs from component manufacturers that drop support after a year or two, leaving you stranded with older kernel versions or userspace dependencies. And there's no change in sight and will not be as long as their business model keeps working.
PCs have been very open platforms for quite some time, with open drivers and lots of standardization. So they linger on.
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