Perhaps partially. But growing and producing more stuff locally would be better. And perhaps learning to go without stuff out of season might be good both for us and for the planet.

Developers are working hard to rebase apps to run on RISC-V silicon. There seem to be a good number of open source apps already available, though I haven’t seen a definitive list anywhere. I use the Alpine Linux repository to monitor progress : https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=&branch=edge&repo=&arch=riscv64&maintainer=

It’s hard to know for sure why people opt for Apple products… It could be any number of things.

Surely the idea of open or free is always going to play better than closed, locked down and proprietary…? idk

Pure speculation : the idea of open source sells. It’s more appealing than the alternative.

The Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A coming with Debian pre-installed, is arguably the first consumer RISC-V device.

Qualcomm has good reason to focus on RISC-V. I’m expecting them to bring out SoCs as soon as they can. And with the Nuvia team, they have the design prowess to produce some very performant silicon.

Perversely; I’m always less inclined to buy a product that I’ve seen advertised… “Why do they need to advertise it? It can’t be up to much.” And “Part of the ticket price has gone into advertising, so it’s not so valuable a thing.”, usually being my first thoughts.

I guess this is a fair indication then of how much Meta receives per person from advertisers…

To quote a Linux tech writer:

"You literally cannot boot a raspberry pi zero, one, two, three or four without running ThreadX which is a Microsoft product.

“So whether the OS pings a repo or not is moot. The whole damn computer is run by a proprietary sealed Microsoft binary.”

Perhaps at that point the consumer will opt for the repairable options.

A sign that the smartphone has reached maturity, I guess. People don’t feel the imperative to upgrade any more. That’s good for the planet!

No open sourced RISC-V processor? Not interested.

And courting Micro$oft…??

He’s lost the plot

Is this technology open source?

I wasn’t suggesting it! There are other options.

The IPhone 3g turned me from a long-time Apple Fanboy to a Linux enthusiast over a decade ago. With no regrets.

The hardware isn’t the issue…

The problem comes when Apple decides not to upgrade the OS any more. Then, some time after that, the apps you like to use won’t work.

Planned obsolescence : environmentally iniquitous.

I contacted them about putting the Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V SoM in… but they seemed unenthusiastic…

Not everyone is riding the hyperbole in tech.

I use Tox P2P.

HEAR! HEAR!!

RISC-V designs are still 3 or 4 years off the pace, but closing fast.

The leap ought to come when the extensions that were ratified at the end of 2021 are realised… 2025/2026.

It would mean the diminishing of market share of proprietary US software and hardware.

Linux and *BSD run on RISC-V. RISC-V devices will be shipped with an open source OS and apps. Android users won’t even notice / care about what chip is inside their tech.

And it puts app lock-in to the test.