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Its fine to say dont buy such hardware. The concern is what happens if thats all AMD, Intel and qualcomm sell to people. Apple already does this with the iPhone

• qayxc 6y ago
  > Apple already does this with the iPhones and tablets, and unless you find a bootrom exploit good luck running an other OS on the device. These devices are not general computing devices (according to Apple), so in their mind that's fine. It also makes no difference to the customer since alternatives exist. The fact that pretty much all other products in the smartphone and tablet market are inferior in terms of hardware, quality and software doesn't matter. > You also start running into problems where more software and content may require such hardware. So? If anything, this opens a market for software and hardware that doesn't require it, don't you think? For every Steam and Epic Game Store there's a Good Old Games [1] is what I'm saying. Just another great reason to support and use FOSS, no? [1] https://www.gog.com https://www.gog.com
  • xg15 6y ago
    > These devices are not general computing devices (according to Apple), so in their mind that's fine. It also makes no difference to the customer since alternatives exist. Yeah, well, if that's all it takes, then we'll probably not have any more "general computing devices" being sold in a few years. (Where did I hear that before?)