I am old enough to remember when buying a new laptop you would actually need to check if the wifi chip, the ACPI vs of the Mobo, the internal ethernet controller, the video card, hell even the sound card, had a linux-supported driver.
It was not always the case and for various reasons (mostly the much heavier integration constraints of different components) it is harder to make on a phone.
It may sound strange, but I think that redemption will come from efforts similar to the PiPhone [1] that allow to create devices from different manufacturers that were not specifically designed to work in a tightly integrated way.
It was not always the case and for various reasons (mostly the much heavier integration constraints of different components) it is harder to make on a phone.
It may sound strange, but I think that redemption will come from efforts similar to the PiPhone [1] that allow to create devices from different manufacturers that were not specifically designed to work in a tightly integrated way.
[1] https://learn.adafruit.com/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-cell...