Not disagreeing with you, but when running a product and R&D team implementing and maintaining both routes is a hard sell. From a business and resource-allocati

Not disagreeing with you, but when running a product and R&D team implementing and maintaining both routes is a hard sell. From a business and resource-allocation perspective there's not enough ROI, I'd rather have those resources work on improving power management. Also, in the end the whole additional effort would be made for a device which is not well-connected to the internet, a tough acknowledgement for a company whose whole business is based on people connected to the internet. For Qualcomm the story is different: They want to sell the chipset to companies who then build/buy local models to include in their firmware package, just like they're used to for the past 10 years...