There are ~four things that matter when developing product hardware: Capability, cost, design and firmware: is the hardware/firmware combination capable of wha

There are ~four things that matter when developing product hardware: Capability, cost, design and firmware: is the hardware/firmware combination capable of what you want, how much is the bill of materials, how laborious is designing the hardware (schematic and routing) and how easy and fast is it to develop on the system. _Nothing_ so far has AVRs beat on the last aspect and they fare very well on the third also. And this is a shame, because similar development ease and LibC style is something that other vendors could very, very easily reproduce but are stuck up on forcing vendor lock-in and pushing their ever shittier IDEs on you. However AVRs almost always lose on 1 and 2, especially compared to ARMs, which are just better in almost every way.