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bennypr0fane is offline bennypr0fane
2018-04-23 , 13:17
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#328
Originally Posted by theonelaw View Post
ARM hardware. Any of it.

Installing anything on Arm requires a reticulated process
of jumping through successive hoops in sequence.
Rube Goldberg engineering, on LSD.

Negotiating bootloader locking mechanisms
to enable (within specifically timed windows) blindly hacked
driver details that were originally created to comply
with randomly created choices in some spaghetti code factory
intended to support just about any kind of memory leak.

It is effing hopeless,
and will never quit being such.

ARM will never leave the padded rooms of the
ANDROID asylum for the crippled insane.
The Jolla tablet was supposed to be launched on an Intel chipset.
In the meantime, Intel has quit its efforts to get into mobile chipsets, and I read somewhere that one of the reasons for that was that ARM was more popular with developers and most basically weren't interested in jumping ship. If ARM is the abomination that you say it is, then why would devs act like that?
Or was what I read just from idiot talking out of his ***?
Why aren't manufacturers keen on trying alternative architectures?
Why does it seem like any chinese no-name manufacturer can churn out lots of cheap Android phones in no time, while companies like Jolla and Fairphone take a horribly long time doing so?
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