Will people be able to run an iPhone in 50 years? Or is it too locked down?

qingcharles · on Sept 30, 2023

It's really hard to get old iPads and iPhones to do anything at all, which is a shame, because iPad hardware is actually fantastic and would still work great with a replacement OS.

At least in 50 years we should be easily able to crack all the signing keys etc so we can boot old software and write new software the passes auth checks on old hardware.

bullen · on Sept 30, 2023

It's too locked down and unproductive. C64 was seminal, not only because it was widespread but because it was relatively open.

SBC are picking up that trend and JH7110 is a good contender to the final hardware.

The only thing left is to make sure the GPU saturates with one CPU core. The driver is still too broken to judge.

LispSporks22 · on Sept 30, 2023

I’m sure people will be able to run it on their optical toe implants or whatever. I grew up hacking assembler as a kid in the 8086 dos era and am still amazed to see it run in a browser window like it’s nothing. Entire Linux systems run in the browser now.