Comment by MomsAVoxell

Yeah, I’m already trying to avoid that blob as well, pretty much - not easy, I know, there are great reasons to follow their dogma .. but Snapdragon-level SOC’s are for me, as a long-time ARM user/developer with record shipping SKU’s, kind of a dime a dozen, kind of thing .. and also the tax of the MS/Nvidia commoditization, well, stings a bit ..

I am thoroughly enjoying the trouncing that Apple is giving everyone in terms of exploiting ARM - it is bothersome however in many ways true — I just am not so sure the open-ness of things has been fulfilled as much as, say, the good ol’ OpenPandora days, if you catch my drift ..

Everything has to be open. No blobs, compilers everywhere as a first-class application, well managed open source repo’s for everything, updates free of charge around a namespace that is large and wide for many, many communities of developer/user interactions occur, unimpeded by needing to ask permission to sign things, but rather just letting everyone sign things together easily from user to developer-level, and let ship new apps from well-oiled repositories ...

No, I think the tooling in the MS/NVidia domain is going to be pretty much the lynchpin. I really, really prefer 100% open source, to the extent it is feasible..