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To quote from the article: > After the first $32 million Series B financing received in 2022, “This investment will allow us to further fuel our transformation
by dbrgn 3y ago
To quote from the article:
> After the first $32 million Series B financing received in 2022, “This investment will allow us to further fuel our transformational platform initiative for professional customers, lowering the barriers to entry in IoT and AI by providing a continuum from hardware to Cloud,” says Arduino’s CEO Fabio Violante.
- bombcar 3y agoThe words! They are buzzing!
- Brusco_RF 3y agoNow if we could just somehow fit "web3" or "as a service" in that sentence
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoCan my project be hosted on blockchain though?
- londons_explore 3y agoJust invest 17 bitcoins into my wallet, and I shall transport your company to the virtual blockchain for you.
- mbanzi 3y agoco founder of Arduino here) actually I hate web3 I think it's a pile of bullshit and it's slowly fading away... We've never been interested in that. We do sell services but we try to avoid bullshit terms like "servitization"
- Brusco_RF 3y agoSince I've got you, allow me to apologize for all the knee-jerk cynics in this thread. I trust you will continue to ship great product and that your incentives will remain aligned with those of your users. Just pinky promise me that you won't make Arduino IDE a subscription :)
- thereisnojesus 3y ago[flagged]
- marcosdumay 3y agoSo... The next versions of the arduino SDK will require a subscription and internet connection to work? (The company is hosted at the UK, isn't it? If it's so, add some invasive spying and selling your data to the list.)
- mbanzi 3y agono they won't... the money is used to develop our Professional products for enterprise customers.. the classic arduino will always be free. We've never build anything that would use licensing servers etc... BTW Arduino is headquartered in Switzerland/Italy/Sweden/USA so... no UK there
- rasz 3y agoOf course Arduino will be free, with optional/required registration. You will start by selling cheap labor leads to your professional customers. "Hot Arduino programmers in your area are waiting to meet you".
- nine_k 3y agoNo point to do that. Arduino the platform should remain widely popular among hobbyists; this makes it an easy choice when they have to produce something more professional. But professionals have different requirements, and are willing to pay for tools that work well. Opening up a professional channel only makes sense if it's buttressed by a large ecosystem outside, with the pressure to keep using Arduino, because it's well-known, hardware is tried and true, hiring is easy, etc. So, if anything, Arduino the company now has more incentives to make Arduino widely accessible among kids, students, hobbyists, etc.
- bboygravity 3y agoSo basically in the future they're going to focus more on competing with Particle. Development of hobbyist stuff will eventually stop. Because: VCs. Got it.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
- baz00 3y agoWhat a load of complete steaming bollocks.
- roflyear 3y agoMan I want to shake the hand of the person or AI that wrote that.