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Building hardware is difficult. Like really difficult. More difficult that anyone expects it to be.
by spaceflunky 8y ago
Building hardware is difficult. Like really difficult. More difficult that anyone expects it to be.
- dylan604 8y agoSums up most of Kickstarter or any crowd funded hardware product that fails to launch. People get super excited about the prototype they built, but then come to realize that mass producing is way more difficult than anticipated. The money raised in crowd funding gets burned through faster than anticipated with the various iterations with each of their vendors. As guess could be said of any startup though. Not just hardware.
- therockhead 8y agoThis is so true. Apple/Samsung make it look easy, with great reliable hardware every year. At work we had multiple google Pixel C tablets for dev reasons, and they were plagued with issues.
- cc439 8y agoEveryone assumes that designing a product for mass production must be easy since "industry" is a part of the "old economy" and thusly must have been so figured out that anyone can do it. The reality is that the past century of modern manufacturing development hasn't resulted in amazing amounts of simplicity just the same as how the "tech" world has only become more complex. The difference is one has a century of exponential complexity growth behind it while.the other has ~30 years of complexity growth in its modern era.