Comment on Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates
Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoI wish I could just install upstream Android on anything that can run it, instead of special binary images for each vendor’s make and model.
Why doesnt it work like that though? Combined with mandatory open bootloader it would free people
^pls,eu🥺^
mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub 1 year ago
Generally, the hardware in a small, power-efficient, SoC embedded device is going to be a lot more particular and a lot less general than your gaming computer’s motherboard. It’s harder to write general OS software for specific integrated systems rather than a big set of chips which provide an individual chip for the BIOS, specialized chips for the PCI ports, etc., all of which have become more standardized over time.