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The history of Arduino is pretty shady [1]; and from all accounts they’re barely treading water these days. There is a glut of well-documented microcontrollers
by wayoutthere 7y ago
The history of Arduino is pretty shady [1]; and from all accounts they’re barely treading water these days. There is a glut of well-documented microcontrollers targeted at hobbyists. Most are at similar price points with far more advanced capabilities.
They created the market, but have been largely unable to capitalize on it. Which is basically par for the course for Italian companies.
[1] https://arduinohistory.github.io/ https://arduinohistory.github.io/
- dmix 7y ago> They created the market, but have been largely unable to capitalize on it. There's a long history of this stuff happening in tech and other industries. It's often the 2nd or 3rd popular company that becomes dominant. Facebook is a classic example. There was a great Harvard Business Review article critiquing the 'first mover advantage' which was the go-to strategy during the dotcom boom that highlighted this phenomenon. Most often the 'first mover' is just paving the way for the next guy.
- pravda 7y agoArduino has been a resounding success! And Arduino is not hardware, it is the ecosystem, the community, etc.. Do a web search for "Basic Stamp", the closed-source progenitor of the Arduino. Then search for "Arduino". I get 142,000,000 results.