03-22-2021, 08:36 PM
Arm Linux laptop or phone is very much a hobbyist or tinkerers market.
It is very hard to make a low cost low volume product and it may not be sustainable.
So in spite of the quality issues I think you have to laud their efforts.
They started with SBC's (I have got their Rock64). But after the Raspberry Pi 4
was released I don't think their SBC's are competitive.
My suggestion for them would be to partner with a high volume Android phone/tablet
manufacturer who is willing to release kernel and uboot code and resell them as
development platform. Another benefit would be that we can have access to more recent
SOC's built on new process technology.
It is very hard to make a low cost low volume product and it may not be sustainable.
So in spite of the quality issues I think you have to laud their efforts.
They started with SBC's (I have got their Rock64). But after the Raspberry Pi 4
was released I don't think their SBC's are competitive.
My suggestion for them would be to partner with a high volume Android phone/tablet
manufacturer who is willing to release kernel and uboot code and resell them as
development platform. Another benefit would be that we can have access to more recent
SOC's built on new process technology.
