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The mass market does not care about repairable hardware or open drivers. Using niche open SoC will make the device slower and/or more expensive. The mass marke

• AnthonyMouse 5y ago
  > The mass market does not care about repairable hardware or open drivers. The evidence for this is that people didn't refuse to buy the first generation of unrepairable devices. Because nobody told them they were unrepairable until they broke, and by then they already owned it. And by then the unrepairable devices were all you could get. How many people would buy a phone if you could honestly market it as lasting for ten years instead of three and having a lower repair cost when you drop it on the concrete? > Using niche open SoC will make the device slower and/or more expensive. The mass market cares about price and performance. The mass market doesn't care about performance on mobile devices. They can't even tell the difference. It's all marketing. Even the phones that are actually faster on paper aren't faster in practice when the "slower" one still does everything instantaneously.