There are a lot of open smartphones and laptops, so it's an ongoing battle. The RPI is quite a big win even though the soc is not open. It's more a problem of

There are a lot of open smartphones and laptops, so it's an ongoing battle. The RPI is quite a big win even though the soc is not open. It's more a problem of capitalism, in my view. I think that the foundries and the chip industry being centered around Asia, it's one reason that it's more difficult to make good open chips. I just hope that a new wave of minimalist software will come soon, because that would be a massive opportunity for open stuff to thrive while being cost effective. The law of wirth allows manufacturers to sell faster chips to consumers, but that can't go on forever.