Are there SoCs at a comparable price/speed that are more open?
I can understand being disappointed at this choice, but if no other options exist, then either you're sacrificing price or performance to get more open-ness. My impression has been that this has mostly been about giving a cheap, easy to use software platform, and they've succeeded at that because of the price/performance balance.
That was then, though. Now that this platform is more established, I imagine they can apply some pressure to get things like the video core to be more open.
I can understand being disappointed at this choice, but if no other options exist, then either you're sacrificing price or performance to get more open-ness. My impression has been that this has mostly been about giving a cheap, easy to use software platform, and they've succeeded at that because of the price/performance balance.
That was then, though. Now that this platform is more established, I imagine they can apply some pressure to get things like the video core to be more open.