[throwaway57546]

I distinctly recall my disappointment when I heard it was Qualcomm that acquired Nuvia because I knew they'd find a way to f*ck it up. This is unfortunately incredibly on brand for Qualcomm. They do the same bundling with the 5G Radios and Snapdragon SoC's. They're more of a patent law firm than a tech company.

[amluto]

I was mostly disappointed because I hoped that Nuvia would result in a product that was fairly open from the perspective of users. You can buy an Intel or AMD CPU, pair it with pretty much anything, and do whatever you want with it. You need to deal with awkward firmware messes and a frequently messy security ecosystem, but it mostly just works. You don’t need software blobs from Intel or (ignoring sometimes messy graphics) AMD.

Even Apple is fairly good in this regard.

Qualcomm, OTOH, does not have a good track record in this regard.