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It's easy for us hobbiests to forget that all the spare do-dads we have floating around our workbench aren't even a drop in the bucket compared to the number of
by freeopinion 3y ago
It's easy for us hobbiests to forget that all the spare do-dads we have floating around our workbench aren't even a drop in the bucket compared to the number of chips bought by a single manufacturer for a single model of a kitchen blender.
We matter a little and can be somewhat of an indicator sometimes. Right up until we don't. A lot of times what matters to us just doesn't apply at scale.
- StillBored 3y agoBut these kinds of things also seem to follow a tech playbook, cheap parts show up, lots of hobbyist, small companies, etc start using them in low volume applications. They work out the bugs, and the newer competitors parts keep getting better. The existing big company doesn't care because, as someone else pointed out they are maintaining a stable volume/revenue. Only, in the tech industry that's almost always a bad sign, the competitors are winning new designs that haven't yet really started to ramp, while the existing vendor is coasting on the current device using their parts. Then what happens is they get stuck in a declining revenue/volume situation while the newer cheaper better competitor slowly eats the market, and at that point investing in a "dying" product just about never happens.