It’s Google turning Google Pixel phones into servers, they were able to call in the hardware design team to work out what was essential and how to strip the dev

It’s Google turning Google Pixel phones into servers, they were able to call in the hardware design team to work out what was essential and how to strip the devices down, and then the firmware team to be able to boot a standard Linux kernel on them. This is a very different situation to most people’s experience of trying to do out of the ordinary things with a phone.