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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by vagrantJin on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:16PM (#30089381)
Ofcourse it just works. Apple makes software and hardware for Apple.

> we can only imagine there's a difference in caliber between the engineers writing patches and hacks around the kernel at Qualcomm vs building the OS that powers the iPhone.

Android has to work everywhere from dodgy tablets running Kitkat to flagships phones that cost an arm and a leg.

Oh woe. What a hard life Apple engineers have. Oh, how brilliant they are. The world would crumble without them. Woe.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by 908B64B197 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:33PM (#30093718)
The issue are patched drivers that are not ported when new kernel releases are introduced.

Apple, somehow, managed to avoid these problems on their SoCs.

> Oh woe. What a hard life Apple engineers have. Oh, how brilliant they are. The world would crumble without them. Woe.

Honestly, they shipped results. And judging by the difference between offers from Qualcomm and Apple, are in a different league.

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