Sounds like Apple fucked over Imagination Technology by poaching their key employees and executives. Apple even opened a new office for chip development next to theirs.

The company was then doing poorly and got bought out by a Chinese company controlled by the Chinese government.

Pretty sad demise for the company. I remember working with their GPUs in the early 2010s.

I didn’t have a platform chart either. I guess they only show it if you play on multiple platforms.

Linux only for me as well.

The remedies are damaging when you build your business on mafia money from Google to enforce their search monopoly.

This would apply to all consumer electronics besides smartphones, such as smart TVs, gaming consoles, etc.

Android has problems with how each device uses a forked kernel with vendor binary blobs only working for that specific forked kernel. PostmarketOS is trying to avoid these issues by upstreaming the drivers so they can be maintained normally when the kernel changes.

Yes having a trusted entity maintain the software is a big problem.

But giving the option to install your own software would be a big step in keeping the devices in use.

Planned Obsolescence is a problem across all consumer electronics that depend on the software being updated. It’s not limited to Big Tech.

The only way I see to solve it is to force vendors to release hardware specs and unlock bootloaders so you can install your own software on it.

An even better solution would be to force vendors to release their software when the hardware is end of life via their planned obsolescence.

It’s great to see small advances in right to repair for hardware, such as replacing the battery or access to new parts, but those don’t help when you are stuck on an outdated OS version.

The EU actually didn’t force them to implement RCS. Apple did it themselves to try and avoid an regulatory/antitrust scrutiny.

At the moment I think having RCS on iPhone is worse than if Apple was forced to open up iMessage to other platforms. RCS on Android is basically controlled by Google and you can’t use it on custom roms. Google also runs the RCS backend that most carriers rely on (rather than implementing their own). So if you are trying to avoid Google’s spyware, you can’t use RCS to message iPhone users.

Remember when Tim Cook told someone’s mom to just by an iPhone in order to access iMessage. True colors coming out there, total douche bag.

You don’t have to use AI. It’s only being crammed into proprietary software. You can steer clear of it with FOSS operating systems.

I thought VR was dead after Apple’s flop of a launch.

Get a Steam Deck, load it with emulators and indie games.