It’s about value not price. The ability to see the source code means you can integrate much better on the hardware if you target your scope. Value comes primarily from the user experience and secondarily from the cost. The number of people who will continually (not just one off) buy based on price will slowly decline if the value is not there. Worse off, vendors who sell solely based on cost bring down those who do work on value as the market gets diluted while the innovators take a bit longer to get to market. What I hope Linux Desktop (which includes devices) vendors do is to produce value. The vendor who can do that and still keep prices competitive will rise above the crowd.

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