Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ...
by freedomben on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @11:17AM
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> You mention RISC-V, but was it ever really tested against the same proposition?
Good point, there's no reason a manufacturer couldn't build it in. My thought was more along the lines of lower barrier of entry that would enable more competition (Qualcomm is near monopoly and has pretty anti-competitive practices that make it super hard to compete with them), and hopefully there will be more transparent options out there. As a user of GPS I'd like the option of enabling something like this because the old days of taking forever to sync with the satellites did suck. But I want to be able to decide for myself, not have the decision forced upon me by the chip's firmware.
> I miss the dumb everything days, where the manufacturer simply could not spare compute power on additional features like telemetry.
Oh man, me too. The nostalgia for this burns like a fire in my soul.
Good point, there's no reason a manufacturer couldn't build it in. My thought was more along the lines of lower barrier of entry that would enable more competition (Qualcomm is near monopoly and has pretty anti-competitive practices that make it super hard to compete with them), and hopefully there will be more transparent options out there. As a user of GPS I'd like the option of enabling something like this because the old days of taking forever to sync with the satellites did suck. But I want to be able to decide for myself, not have the decision forced upon me by the chip's firmware.
> I miss the dumb everything days, where the manufacturer simply could not spare compute power on additional features like telemetry.
Oh man, me too. The nostalgia for this burns like a fire in my soul.