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You forgot iPhone.

• apatheticonion 2mo ago
  FR the iPhone is such a great missed opportunity. Imagine if someone developed a Linux based mobile OS that could run on it. Imagine if someone figured out that the USB-C port could do displayport out. Then imagine plugging that Linux iPhone into a usbc dock or lapdock (laptop with only a screen, keyboard and usbc input) and having a Linux desktop pop up. The MacBook Neo already proved that iPhone hardware is fast enough for general purpose desktop computing - why aren't we allowed to do that? Oh right, because the bootloader is locked and (practically) no one outside of Apple can produce hardware drivers without documentation. It isn't a lack of skill or lack of demand - it's hardware gatekeeping by vendors.
  • fsflover 2mo ago
    Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367568