For me, it’s small business retail. Point-of-Sale systems, physical inventory management, the existing options are not built for smaller operations or are not good.
For me, it’s small business retail. Point-of-Sale systems, physical inventory management, the existing options are not built for smaller operations or are not good.
Any silicon vendors (NVidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Realtek, etc) should have open source drivers / firmware. I can’t imagine what, if any, benefits there are to keeping that secret, and it seems logical that sales could/would increase if people were easily able to adapt them for their use cases.
And also the huge reduction in ewaste by being able to keep smartphones up to date or repurpose them without having to spend years painstakingly reverse-engineering binary blobs that only work with ancient kernels.
You answered your own question, they would prefer planned obsolescence so you buy a new product