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Travel to Africa, India and South East Asia some time. The world is a big place outside of California, and the hardware available to many is not what you'll fin
by dleslie 6y ago
Travel to Africa, India and South East Asia some time. The world is a big place outside of California, and the hardware available to many is not what you'll find at a cafe in San Francisco.
- gerash 6y agoI've lived in other less developed countries and it's not like a raspberry Pi is the most people can afford there. Have you lived in the places you've listed?
- dleslie 6y agoThe RPi is an example of a growing SOC device market, but I did mention as well the enormous install base of older and under-powered devices in general. I have family in Colombia.
- oblio 6y agoI don't live in California (nor the US), I've only visited twice or so. I'm from a place similar to those you're describing. Few people would get enthusiast gear like Raspberry Pi. What they would get, instead, would be an old x86 PC with pirated Windows. A crummy knock off Chinese laptop or locally assembled PC (so not from the big OEMs).
- dleslie 6y agoIt seems we agree, then? Those devices you mention would be in the category of older, lower-power machines that I mentioned.
- oblio 6y agoNot quite. Even rather poor people in poor countries can get PCs with decent computing power, as PC performance plateaued circa 2010 and old PCs are really cheap. You don't need to get something 20-25 years old when something 5-10 years old is maybe 20% more expensive and a lot more powerful.
- dleslie 6y agoBazel requires gigabytes of memory; for a 10y old machine that's still going to eat up most of what you've got.