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Note the word "related". It's doing a lot of heavy-lifting in this sentence. The drivers for the SoC are closed source. Qualcomm refuses to update the drivers,
by hammyhavoc 4y ago
Note the word "related". It's doing a lot of heavy-lifting in this sentence.
The drivers for the SoC are closed source. Qualcomm refuses to update the drivers, meaning more sales.
The modern Pixel uses Google's Tensor, not Qualcomm's Snapdragon.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoIf only there was one entity that literally controls who has access or not to the Google Store, and could enforce practices like actually respecting copyrights (like the GPL) or even using an upstream kernel for any device that ever wants to access the Google Store... This is all Google's fault. They are the ones who develop most of the software. They are the ones who decide what to deprecated and what not. They also set the rules about what is acceptable and what is not ('open' handset alliance my ass).