I left embedded when I realized everything, at least in my neck of the woods, was going to end up being cramming phone parts into things that were not phones. The writing has been on the wall for a while now.

Even now as a consumer I can see the stagnation. It's the same parts year after year. Or you become a phone. You have my sympathy.

That's what this is looking like tbh. I guess I'm just hoping for a miracle. Maybe chiplets will save us.

Are you saying that partly why every device is a “smart” device? Because it’s cheaper to fit components with connectivity already built in so you might as well use it?