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Seems like the success of shenzen as a big startup place will also depend on to what degree IoT takes off, since custom hardware is so essential to that. Like t
by chillacy 10y ago
Seems like the success of shenzen as a big startup place will also depend on to what degree IoT takes off, since custom hardware is so essential to that. Like the video says, the rest of us just use generic hardware where the only metrics are performance and maybe power consumption.
Imagine how different bay area startups would be if VC backed startups built robotic arms and legs instead of one-click deploy Rails PaaS infrastructure.
- Taniwha 10y agoThe thing to realise it's already that, essentially it's the place you go if you win at Kickstarter - if you went for $10k and got $1M - there's already a western hardware hacker community regularly rotating through the city. Of course that's not exactly the traditional startup, these are often people bootstrapping themselves without a VC sugar daddy - not needing to have an exit story with 7 0s
- walrus01 10y agothis is a puff piece documentary, but take a look at the scale of the consumer electrical goods manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSHo61nRWw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSHo61nRWw I think what we will see is cheap ($5-10 max) IOT-like modules being integrated into all sorts of random consumer electrical goods. Whether your blender needs to speak bluetooth 4.0 and associate to your home wifi AP is sort of a moot point, at some point in time the modules will get so cheap that they're integrated by default into any device that has electrical power. Whether you need it or not. How useful it'll be is another question. An IOT thing with a relay in every lamp?