The future of our hobby (was Re: ImageDisk project is canceled)

[der Mouse]

> There will never be a hacker-friendly mobile phone for instance.

I'm not entirely convinced this is true, especially since there can be
more than one form of "hacker-friendly" (perhaps most broadly, the
difference between hardware-hacker-friendly, which is what we were
talking about here, and software-hacker-friendly, which is a matter of
design and documentation, not construction technology).

But never mind....

> Component level repair on those is impossible,

Really?  I've had one of mine (a Nokia 5190) apart, and it doesn't look
any worse than any other surface-mount stuff.

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