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> Some shipped with schematics and ROM listings. They were more open than an iPhone, but they were not particularly open to anyone with less than a CE/EE level
by api 6y ago
> Some shipped with schematics and ROM listings.
They were more open than an iPhone, but they were not particularly open to anyone with less than a CE/EE level of computer and electronics expertise. They certainly were not designed to be modular and open like the clone PCs that came later.
- pvg 6y agoI don't think that's accurate, just google up an Apple ][. But even if it were true, it wouldn't be strong evidence for your 'consumer hardware platforms become more open' theory given the reality of the longer-lasting smartphone era we live in now. Both the theory and the example used to support it seem starkly at odds with that reality, to me.
- mirimir 6y agoGame devices and smartphones were carefully designed to remain closed. Although the Pinephone and Librem 5 look like smartphones, and use many of the same components, they are far closer to phone-sized PCs. And so they're open from the start.