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The way they are advertising snap in a completely unrelated product is so weird. Their marketing team needs to learn that it would only push the developer's min

• Glyptodon 5y ago
  I don't think it's unrelated, I think they think the snap format is good for distributing and updating embedded applications, such as those you'd use with signage, easily. But no idea how realistic that is.
• jeroenhd 5y ago
  Their entire IoT program seems to revolve around hooking companies on using Snap. This makes sense financially, because if you can trick a company into rolling out their IoT network through Snap, a store Canonical is the only one in control of, they practically lock these customers into their business model. Once you've deployed a thousand IoT devices, you don't just re-develop the entire system to use Docker/Balena/whatever when Canonical announces it'll start charging money for something that's currently free. The price difference needs to be smaller than the added development cost or it'd be a waste of company resources.
  • tssva 5y ago
    Canonical is pretty open about the limitations of any free offering and pretty open that this is really intended for a paying audience. I don't see any attempt to bait and switch going on.
• jdub 5y ago
  When you see the phrase "it's worth mentioning" in a press release, you can be pretty sure it's not worth mentioning.