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> For an individual, RPi is cheaper if your time is worth anything at all.

The only reason that's true is because groups have catered to the device and have ready-to-go instructions. Were the same effort put into making Samsung S2/S3/S4 etc phones easily converted, I'm not sure the time difference would be all that much at all.

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But you don't have to support only S2/S3/S4 if that were the case then it'd be easy. The paper mentioned comparing 350 different devices. Groups can't gather if they are spread out across hundreds of devices. Not to mention that the userbase for user hostile devices isn't that big if there are user friendly alternatives.

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