I wonder what this will mean for custom roms. Mediatek are among the only chipsets with available microcode and therefor e.g. supported by OpenWRT, which gives me hope.
OpenWrt mentioned!!!
also I feel like google knows they’ll lose like 25% of their phone market share if they dont allow custom ROMs on pixels. No one’s buying a pixel for the “status” and it is not a budget device by any means.
Mediatek has been making phone SoCs since forever now, they have two lines - Helios and Dimensity. They’re used in many phones, usually on the lower end. Even Samsung uses them. Both lines have abysmal custom rom support compared to Snapdragon phones, so I don’t think you can hope for much there.
Would you want to run OpenWRT on the phone? If yes, why? I’m genuinely interested in examples of actual use cases.
Or are you hoping something new will emerge that takes advantage of the MediaTek chipset, similar to what OpenWRT already does for routers etc. but with a slightly different, smartphone-focused approach?
I was just trying to say that i hope that the creators of custom roms will still be able to do their work, which i don’t take for granted. Google doesn’t make their money with the phones themselves but with the data they get from the os thats running on them.
The CPU is still Google’s Tensor, and the modem on current Pixels is already a blackbox that custom ROMs interact with using binary blobs ripped from the official ROM. There isn’t much that could get worse with this change.
Oh bullshit. Google is charging as much as Apple. They are making money off of the phone sales.
