• Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    8 months ago

    the phones are already impossible to sell abroad without the google apps and a locked bootloader, it changes nothing for them

    because they are in control of the platform they don’t need to run everything in an interpreter. The cpu is and will always be arm-based, any interpreted language is a waste of power

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      8 months ago

      I don’t know whether they currently sell phones abroad, but I know in the past they have sold abroad. It’s a big market.

      So it certainly affects them organizationally. Any phone that they want to sell abroad will have completely different software. They’d likely have to use an entirely different team of people.

      any interpreted language is a waste of power

      It’s not a waste of power. There are a lot of tradeoffs like ease of development and fault tolerance. And the cost of the interpreter is greatly mitigated at run time. Please just stop talking about this. It’s not as good of a point as you think it is.