Embedded Systems Design
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Welded's right, it's often full of ideosyncracies, and custom handmade software. Often these devices are made by companies who prohibit using any GPL software, so things get re-invented, sometimes not as good.
The guy I knew said the device he worked on used a custom image tiling system, he basically had to learn from scratch, except that he'd done some gameboy advance stuff years ago and could re-use some of the ideas from that gig.... they both had very tight memory requirements. But there were emulators on PC's he could use, so he didn't have to burn an EPROM each time....
Some Mobile phones are more standardized, especially Google Android and iPhone have communities and API docs. Whereas some other phones are totally vendor-supplied language/docs/learn from scratch...