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That wouldn't work today, though. People have a much higher expectation of what a piece of hardware can do and looks like.
by adevine 10y ago
That wouldn't work today, though. People have a much higher expectation of what a piece of hardware can do and looks like.
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- davidiach 10y agoNot necessarily, look at all the projects on Kickstarter. There are still a lot of products that can be designed and build for less than $1 million.
- maxerickson 10y agoDon't you need to look at the products that hit the mass market? A successful experiment on Kickstarter isn't really a fair comparison to the Apple I and Apple II, you need the Apple II of the Kickstarter project to make for an interesting comparison.
- jmkni 10y agoYeah, but those projects stand on the shoulders of giants. They are building on top of already existing open source hardware and software.
- orly_bookz 10y agoThat's true of everything, though? I mean a shitty $2 shirt wouldn't exist but for the power looms of the 19th century...
- nradov 10y agoApple built their first computers out of commercially available standard electronic components.
- daemin 10y agoIt's more that people have a higher expectation of what a device can to, and that generally means what the software can do. I mean right now there are computers you can get that are orders of magnitude better in every dimension than the first Apple computer, that you can buy for less than $100 (I'm talking about the Pi and its ilk). But to make it do something useful there has to be a lot more effort expended to add peripherals and write proper software to match people's expectations.