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The Place and Play looks very much like what I am looking for, but indeed, the prices are not exactly consumer-level. I really wonder, whether there would not
by _ph_ 7y ago
The Place and Play looks very much like what I am looking for, but indeed, the prices are not exactly consumer-level.
I really wonder, whether there would not be more consumer interest in these devices, if there were actual offerings. What about offering the 13" display in a plastic housing with a software more crafted to the consumer/hobbyist? Perhaps powered and controlled by USB-C or optimized for the Raspberry Pi. How low could the prices go, especially with larger volumes?
Of course, it could be just me, and there is not much interest in the wider audience.
- taude 7y agoFor me the ideal size would be like a 10 or 11" device I could use for text-based things. (Think Emacs-ish only type of device, or something)....super light weight, long battery life.
- luka-birsa 7y agoThe components cost too much. Perhaps if this was some open source play where everybody did everything for free. We tried different pricing, different positioning and we could not breakthrough into large volumes with a platform play. Everybody in the end tries to haggle you on the price / cut you out and unless you have Google-deep pockets you can't afford to lose money for a couple years to launch this wide. I'd say that it's pretty much impossible to do a platform play in hardware if you're a startup. Even when talking about IOT, which is arguably the simplest hardware I don't remember of a platform play that went really well. Most of them are meh or random successes like the ESP WiFI (again not started by a small startup, but still could be argued that is a proper hacker platform). If you want to play with some of our solutions, hit me up at luka dot birsa [at] visionect dot com and I'll see what I can do.