Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
by pedrocr on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @06:36PM
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Oh, definitely! It's even worse because you don't even get a properly secured device, it's a horrible ecosystem right now. But because it actually runs an open-source kernel and the bootloaders can be unlocked in most cases there's a chance to fix it still. With Apple hardware, unlike in their laptops, you have no choice but to run their software.
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Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
by bubblethink on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:28PM
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>With Apple hardware, unlike in their laptops, you have no choice but to run their software.
Apple laptops are also in a pretty bad shape. Eventually, they may be usable as laptops for other (free) OSes with sufficient reverse engineering, but currently they can't. That they can be used at all is quite accidental due to things outside of Apple's control and other historical factors.