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> They have a 16-bit Vendor ID. That's 65,535 vendors supported. Globally. Ever. One must pay the CSA ([0] $2,500 per PRODUCT or $7,000 per YEAR) for one of the
by HankB99 3y ago
> They have a 16-bit Vendor ID. That's 65,535 vendors supported. Globally. Ever. One must pay the CSA ([0] $2,500 per PRODUCT or $7,000 per YEAR) for one of these artificially scarce identifiers.
I didn't know any of this. I pay attention to IoT (and run a modest Home Assistant setup in my home.) Had I known about these constraints, I would have written off Matter from the beginning.
What were they thinking?
- anymouse123456 3y agoComing from software and making the move to hardware has been incredibly eye-opening. As soon as you need to instantiate something with atoms, the cycle-times and overall difficulty increases exponentially. Just when you think you've got something, all these despicable gatekeepers shove their hands in your pockets. There are lots of reasons we can't have small batch, niche electronic products, and these license fees combined with even worse regulatory costs require enormous sales volumes to amortize. It's really concerning to see the same rent-seeking values making such strong headway in the software space over the past 5-10 years too.
- margalabargala 3y ago> What were they thinking? Take a gue$$
- HankB99 3y agoBut no $$ if not successful.