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Seriously, RTFA. Look at the specs. This isn't some basic version of a cutting-edge technology, it's just an 8-bit microcontroller with some geegaws. If some
by Semiapies 16y ago
Seriously, RTFA. Look at the specs.
This isn't some basic version of a cutting-edge technology, it's just an 8-bit microcontroller with some geegaws. If someone wants to make yet another low-end handheld game and make some money selling it in discount stores, more power to them...but you aren't going to compete with many far more advanced platforms in the same arena.
If you want to pretend otherwise, by all means drop some pithy, defiant quotes and condemn my lack of vision...and we'll still both know nobody's going to build an iPhone-killer out of this.
- DaniFong 16y agoCome on. $69 for a handheld touchscreen computer that you can program however you want? You'd have to be incredibly jaded to not reflect about how amazing this is. You'd have to be deliberately ignorant to not be able to imagine things you could do with this. iPhone killer no; but that's not the point.
- Semiapies 16y agoNo, you come on. You're the guy who was calling someone a troll for pointing out exactly what you just admitted - that it's a really neat hobbyist kit, not an iPhone competitor.
- DaniFong 16y agoI'm sorry this miscommunication has caused you so much consternation; I will readily agree it's no iPhone competitor at this time. It may even be a toy. But don't dismiss it. That's all.
- NickPollard 16y agoPeople aren't saying they're going to build an iPhone-killer out of this. They're saying it's a good platform for messing around and prototyping wacky ideas, ideas which might end up with potentially for being turned into real products (with 'real' production values, technology, supply chains, etc.) Of course people aren't going to write a couple of programs and then sell an 8-bit microcontroller off the shelf, but as a platform for experimentation - that's what it's good for.