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CPU standardization is already here, your iPhone runs ARMv8-A does that allow you to replace the kernel on your iPhone?

What it is about android that allows you to do so is the copyleft license on the linux kernel. Chips can be locked down, and they generally are.

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Yes, but I don’t understand how Fuchsia prevents pine64 to offer a Linux compatible chip. Not being able to unlock an android/fuchsia/iOS phone doesn’t really matter, does it?

Either way, I was hinting at a possible liberation through the laptop/desktop/server ARM SoC market, which is certainly coming. I think x86 is “over”.

Well: if fuchsia becomes the standard phone OS, the current practice of providing kernel source (to the point it can be compiled into working firmware) will end.

It doesn't prevent anyone from providing linux firmwares, but it takes away the reason they must do so.

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