> something that can compete with a Pi 4

Qualcomm being as hostile to open-source as Broadcom is definitely something in common for both SBCs.

It’s a funny state of the world that the flagship hobbyist “open source” development boards now both contain products from such hobbyist-hostile chip companies as Qualcomm and Broadcom!

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Iulioh 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

i guess that you have to make compromise somewhere

The Fairphone 5 used a QCM6490, a qualcomm industrial chip with a 10y support timeline

The Fairphone 6 uses a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 with ane stimated 3-4 years of support

At least for the 5 the compromise was motivated, in the second case i just don't feel like the low performance is a worthwhile compromise.

	▲	beeflet 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		perhaps the idea with the fairphone is to make the motherboard reverse-compatible with previous models, like framework? They changed the naming scheme

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pjmlp 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Just like the Linux kernel has plenty of contributions from the companies that get as much hate as possible from FOSS communities.

Turns out there isn't adoption success without compromises.

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teunispeters 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah, except Qualcomm's source and hardware is much higher quality ;) (I used to work with a lot of it at a past job).