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		pjc50 on May 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Fragmented Is Android? This is what devicetree is supposed to be. However, as with the arctic machine, the incentives are misaligned - they actively don't want to be commoditized.

djsumdog on May 26, 2019 [–]

Windows phones did at least have UEFI + arm. You can unlock the bootloaders of many of them now. But there's still no driver support for mobile data and several other critical hardware components.

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