[castratikron]

Yes, embedded is harder than web. But embedded can only scale to as many hardware units the company can sell, while web can in theory scale to everyone on the planet. Web pays more because of this.

[goatinaboat]

On the other hand people are comfortable paying actual money for hardware but expect websites to be free.

[ChuckNorris89]

Websites aren't free, they're mining your data just that average Joe doesn't know or doesn't care as long as it's free.