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Frankly, not a single one. You'd need: * Significant improvements in 3D printing * the ability to construct circuits as part of 3D printing * a much wider r
by groby_b 14y ago
Frankly, not a single one.
You'd need:
* Significant improvements in 3D printing
* the ability to construct circuits as part of 3D printing
* a much wider range of materials available.
Essentially, you'd need to be able to ship hardware as a digital good. Which raises the huge question of DRM. The recent years of software startups side-stepped that by going the SaaS approach. (You'll notice desktop software is pretty much dead. There are no major new projects in that area since probably ~2008 or so.)
HaaS is going to be much more difficult. (Not necessarily undoable. Minds on too much coffee have suggested going a biological route, where devices just decompose after a certain time)
- business_guy 14y agoI don't get the fetish about 3D printing when CNC milling machine are cheaper and better in most aspects. Between a Makerbot and a Roland iModela I know what I want, and it's not the Makerbot...