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Honest question out of sheer ignorance. Could this, in theory, open doors for an OEM to finally start working on a Linux mobile phone and for devs to spin distros for those phones?
That would make me very happy.
Oh wow, kind of like apple puts an M chip in iPads now, maybe a throttled version of a Snapdragon X chip could be used to make a phone. Didn't think of that but that would be very cool
If Crapple can do it, I see no reason why Qualcomm can't.
I could see Pine64 doing once the chip becomes cheaper
Yeah, that's the only one that comes to mind if this ever happens.