we use general purpose chips *everywhere*. twenty years ago my car had thirty 90's era desktop cpus in it (m68k). last year my kids got laser tag that uses the same class chips, which are about 10¢ now. killing general compute borders on physically impossible.

whereas gimping Apple and Samsung mobile SoC's borders on easy. ensuring touch screens, mobile gpus, and basebands have binary blob drivers is almost the default.

i get it, but people aren't going to "give up mobile" either