Yeah then you have the choice to not buy the locked down hardware, you don't have a right to get open hardware FROM Google.

Of course there are no good options for open hardware, but that is a related but separate problem.

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orbital-decay 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not a separate problem, Google are actively suppressing any possibility of open mobile hardware. They force HW manufacturers to keep their specs secret and make them choose between their ecosystem and any other, not both. There's a humongous conflict of interests and they're abusing their dominating position.

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dmitrygr an hour ago | parent [-]

> They force HW manufacturers to keep their specs secret

Spoken like someone who has never ever worked with any hardware manufacturers. They do not need reasons for that. They all believe their mundane shit is the most secret-worthy shit ever. They have always done this. This predates google, and will outlive it.

	▲	renewiltord an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Often it is because they don't know their own devices. We got a dev board from Qualcomm once and the documentation was totally bogus.