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> It forces you to develop in ways that are not natural for people that work with hardware My employer still upgrades 10yrs old TV boxes just fine. (Rocking Li
by phh 5y ago
> It forces you to develop in ways that are not natural for people that work with hardware
My employer still upgrades 10yrs old TV boxes just fine. (Rocking Linux 5.4 LTS, launched on 2.6)
It is not natural for companies whose business model is selling hardware. Or course their business incentive is not to make long-term support!
But my employer's business model isn't about selling hardware, but a service, hence the incentive to upgrade perfectly working hardware.
- sulam 5y agoYeah, a pure service model would be lovely in many ways. If I ever start a company that makes HW (fat chance) my experience at Fitbit means it will certainly be service-based.
- deburo 5y agoThat's pretty funny considering the amount of tech consumers that hate having subscriptions attached to their hardware. There's no happy ending :^)