There are indeed two camps - the bleeding edge that loves change and the trailing edge that wants stability. God bless both camps as they depend on each other for a viable ecosystem.
Thanks to BeagleBoard open source and parts/doc public availability, we can attempt to tackle the "perils" that we believe is a better trade-off than building everything ourselves. Special Computing offers BeagleBoneBlack with or without logos for both camps which we can build/test ourselves and offer to the public. This allows us to be independent to offer options like industrial temp plus variations like 1GB DRAM, Wifi, other processors, etc. https://specialcomp.com/beaglebone Special Computing +1-480-818-5745 On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Przemek Klosowski < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Karl Karpfen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It may not be relevant for hobbyists that always want to have the latest > > hardware and replace their board every month, but it is HIGHLY relevant > for > > all kinds of industry usage where a hardware needs to stay available and > > stable over a longer period. There it does not matter when the device > itself > > is a bit outdated, it would be much more expensive for companies to > change a > > whole machine just because a simple controller board is no longer > available. > > Right, and it leads to a paradoxical situation where old, slow > hardware is much more expensive than shiny new, fast hardware--there > are many hidden costs involved in guaranteed multi-year availability. > The industry is willing to pay for such guarantees, but most of the > people on this list are not so inclined. > > -- > 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/d/optout. > > -- 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/d/optout.
