They said FOSS, not OSS. F means free as in freedom. As in you’re free to modify the software running on your phone at will and to your liking and Apple or some government can’t get in your way.. not even for the kids.
I mean this does forget the point that absolutely nothing is stopping anyone making a riscv processor which also has such features; we just have to take the manufacturer’s word that they don’t? Riscv isn’t the solution to any of these problems, but hopefully it’ll enable a few more ethical manufacturers to pop up who do make this stuff their core mission.
Probably not, though.
This is the most powerful RISC-V platform you can buy today. It comes as a Mini-ITX board including 16Gb of DDR4 ram, 1Gbps ethernet, usb 3.2, PCI Express and NVMe.
Of course it is less powerful than an x64 machine at the same price point, but it should work reasonably well when paired with an SSD and a graphics card.
Nowadays I just check the benchmarks of a CPU to have a rough idea of it's performance.
> coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload.
In this case, you or me might be the expert, who can provide solutions for other people such as an "installer" to do whatever.
I personally don't really have a problem with Apple's plan here by the way; I think the way they're doing it is actually quite balanced and reasonable. But other people should be free to make a different personal decision on this. What I would like is to modify some other aspects of my iPhone though, like some things on the keyboard that still bug me after several years.