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It suggests that vendors would want alternative firmwares to be developed for the hardware they sell. Do you think they wouldn't want that?
by ramshorns 6y ago
It suggests that vendors would want alternative firmwares to be developed for the hardware they sell. Do you think they wouldn't want that?
- jobigoud 6y agoMost companies nowadays want to have total control on how users use their hardware. For many IoT things the product is in the patterns they collect when the device sends data home to "backup on the cloud".
- webmaven 6y agoThat entirely depends on whether the attractive profit margins are on the hardware itself, or adjacent (complementary) to it, in software or services tied to the hardware through the firmware.