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Beyond just having more stuff inside, making something small and stylish costs more in time and money, so dev tools tend to be more functional as they aren’t a
by fredoralive 3y ago
Beyond just having more stuff inside, making something small and stylish costs more in time and money, so dev tools tend to be more functional as they aren’t a mass market product.
- charcircuit 3y agoYou can amortize that cost by just reusing what work you already are doing for making the actual device.
- georgemcbay 3y agoDev kits for game consoles typically started shipping well before the actual device hardware did to give external developers enough time to create launch games. It wasn't uncommon for the dev kits to go out a year or more before the console shipped to retail. This is particularly true in the era before consoles were basically just locked down x86 PCs and thus developers needed access to a variant of the actual hardware to port their games/engines.
- charcircuit 3y agoThat doesn't contradict with my point. There are also logistic advantages in making the device small.