alt Hacker NewsQualcomm is a “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, you don’t fool me twice” kind of situation. So many horrible experiences in the past that people are going to be hesitant.
Qualcomm are trying harder now it seems. But it will take time to repair their reputation in the PC market.
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derefr • today at 4:37 PM
Can you say more? I don't have any memory of Qualcomm-related scandals(?), but I just read the news; I've never really been a user of their chips.
re-thc • today at 5:23 PM
> Qualcomm are trying harder now it seems.
Not really, the 1st. iteration got stuck in legal land and other delays.
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They burned me with the first gen Snapdragon X Elite. Before the various laptops with it were out they promised Linux support. Here we are, years alter, still no fully OOTB support. Ironically, the GPU firmware were just mainlined in the kernel 4 months ago, but they still haven't done the same for the 1st gen X elite.
Tuxedo computers tried and didn't succeed either.
I will never buy Qualcomm again. I avoid them on phones as well by just buying Apple. They do not support their hardware beyond the release.