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It’s basically a scale problem. Modern smartphones are insanely complex: custom chips, radios, antennas, battery/thermal management, and tight OS-hardware integ
by paulwilsonn 1y ago
It’s basically a scale problem. Modern smartphones are insanely complex: custom chips, radios, antennas, battery/thermal management, and tight OS-hardware integration. Doing software only is feasible for a small team, but building a full open-source phone from scratch would need hundreds of engineers and billions in investment - which is why almost everyone focuses on OS mods instead.
- henryjhon123 1y ago[dead]
- 0xCE0 1y agoAlso patents and other per-country legal stuff. And also the current application ecosystem: all the apps for iPhone/Android must be runnable. Not mentioned payment systems etc.
- paulwilsonn 1y agoI agree with you
- 2rsf 1y agoAnd it's not just the individual hardware components, at these small scales building and integrating the components is a big challenge