Scared of hard work ?

Posted Oct 14, 2010 17:40 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Scared of hard work ? by amimjf
Parent article: HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone (Freedom to Tinker)

Everything looks easy when someone else is doing it.

Have you actually seen a modern cell phone PCB? It's all BGAs or worse. 80% of the traces are buried so they can't be probed without delaming, and even those on the surface are so small that you need specialized probes just to hit reliably. "Just scope it" isn't really an option anymore.

> HTC have done all this once so anybody else with a similar level of skill can.

And a similar access to SanDisk engineering support.