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REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This seems like a tactic that might win a battle but lose the war. Reminds me of Unity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What happened with Unity in the end? Did they back down?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

the fact that you know they fucked up but don't know how they fixed it says it all.

even if they did "fix" it, public opinion has been settled and nobody will trust them for awhile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Good. Godot exists. Or even that weird engine from Amazon (?) they open sourced. You could make a Unity competitor out of that. Just create an asset store for it and sell stuff, give other creators a decent cut and they will come.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, iirc, at first they tried to downplay the change, then they paused it, then they walked it back entirely. I think that last step happened relatively recently, even.

But IMO the damage was done from just trying to alter the deal like that.

And, for me personally, I (naively) thought that ARM was an open standard. I opposed the Nvidia purchase because I thought they would do their corporate bullshit to kill off competition or for greed and thought that it getting blocked meant it would be free of corporate bullshit. This action makes it clear that it's already got some of that going on and ARM has been mentally re-filed to a spot beside x86 and its derivatives.

Though now I'm wondering if that's the whole point. Do some shitty corporate stuff so that the next time someone wants to buy them out, there isn't as much opposition and the current owners and C-suite can cash out.