Custom designs used to make sense when general-purpose computers were expensive. Nowadays, it's cheaper to stick a generic ARM SoC in your product and install

Custom designs used to make sense when general-purpose computers were expensive. Nowadays, it's cheaper to stick a generic ARM SoC in your product and install a LAMP stack on it. It's also easier to find cheap developers that way. My router is just a bunch of CGI scripts running on an outdated Linux distro.