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Moving personal computing to ARM is going to enslave us, the end users. The temptation for the OEMs to lock everything down and integrate all components into no
by rathel 7y ago
Moving personal computing to ARM is going to enslave us, the end users. The temptation for the OEMs to lock everything down and integrate all components into non-extensible hardware is too strong.
- chaostheory 7y agoSince we're on the subject, how far are we from a truly open source machine?
- grishka 7y agoThere already are some: https://puri.sm/products/ https://puri.sm/products/
- pankajdoharey 7y agoDefinitely more than a Decade, there is no true GPU equivalent Open Core, There are some Open CPU Cores but these are basic compared to what ARM has on offer.
- amiga-workbench 7y agoIBM PC Compatible's """openness""" is a complete fluke, and the conditions that caused it no longer exist. Ultimately we're all going to get dragged along for the ride in whatever direction the masses decide they can put up with.
- wyldfire 7y agoIt was coming since before ARM's rise [1]. But you are right that it is coming. Signed bootloaders are simultaneously fantastic and horrible. I think open hardware initiatives may be a potential way out. But will we see a ban on anonymity in the coming decades? Only licensed devices could connect to the Internet? It would be similarly fantastic and horrible IMO. [1] https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
- pankajdoharey 7y agoWell there are obvious reasons price for one, a A13 Chip might cost apple $25 to produce which is far cheaper than Intel Core i9-9900K which would cost us $479 even for OEM's at bulk prices it would cost them south if $420, even if Apple produces 4 times as dense as chip as A13 which is already quite dense at 8.5 billion transistors it would not cost them what Intel is charging. And Intel has been overcharging for a decade as is evident from AMD's processor pricing. Also A13 is an energy efficient product at 7nm compared to any desktop processor at this time.
- pjmlp 7y agoI never felt enslaved on the 16 bit single vendor home computers. By the way, PC "openness" only happened due to IBMs mistake and Compaq's cleverness on how they reverse engineered the PC.