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Re:We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem by transpute on Sunday October 06, 2024 @01:29AM (#41754966)
> uphill battle against a swarm of slightly different CPUs and device trees

Economic incentives for "differentiation", e.g. device tree with upstream Linux and uboot support for feature A, but non-upstream uboot blob enables feature A+B.

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Re:We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem by mikrotikker on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:33AM (#41755702)
The Samsung s5 had a noticeable difference in camera quality between stock and AOSP.
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