SBC end-of-life has been public knowledge for ages, and the price has dropped accordingly.
Contrary to how some might think manufacturing works, if the replacement product is late, you can't instantly crank out more of the previous one. Besides the manufacturer's problems, some of their suppliers would flat-out refuse to ramp back up for a limited run of obsolete components. (I'm speaking of hardware production in general here). The other possibility is the clean cut-over. If you can even orchestrate it, this upsets customers far more, because you have loads of people who are disappointed at having just bought the previous product. So you drop the prices, then you have a little down-time, and then you ship the next thing. I'll give you that Ante-Logi, the down time would have been very short because otherwise we'd have promptly gone bankrupt. Look on the bright side - at least they're using the time to improve the next product. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76286 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
