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Google might benefit strategically from a market where phones are commoditized down at the hardware subsystem level. This would further disempower hardware int
by mturmon 13y ago
Google might benefit strategically from a market where phones are commoditized down at the hardware subsystem level. This would further disempower hardware integrators like Samsung.
The analogy is Microsoft:beige box::Google:component phone.
- jayd16 13y agoI'm fairly certain this is the real goal of the project.
- userbinator 13y ago> where phones are commoditized down at the hardware subsystem level This is already happening with the various Chinese manufacturers and the Mediatek MT65xx platform. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of different models, all slightly different looking and with different dimensions, but based on the same internal reference design with minor changes, often to the point of ROM interchangeability.