On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 1:37:02 PM UTC+1, Elena Grandi wrote: > > This theory has a problem: Beagleboard.org was born in 2008 or so, > much earlier than the Raspberry (which started to be known to the > public in 2011, and was available in 2012). >
Ok, I admit I am not much aware of the way Beagleboard.org worked before the lower-cost Beaglebones were introduced, but it has always been driven by marketing, initially aimed at colleges, according to Wikipedia. I just want to make clear that big companies don't do anything without profit. > > Of course the success of the Raspberry did influence BB.org's > products: back in 2008 the standard price for this kind of > boards was around 150$ (e.g. the original BeagleBoard) and it had been > slowly coming down to just below 100$ (e.g. the BeagleBone White): > it was Raspberry and its extreme corner cutting that brought > prices down below 50$, and other producers had to adapt their offerings. > > I totally agree. Nobody would buy a BBB for $150 when you can get a Raspberry Pi. But prices of other HW components have probably also dropped significantly since the old days. Anguel -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
