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by mschuster91 1992 days ago
> Couldn't they have fit that within both budget and size?

Oh they could have. The problem is: it's extremely hard to get access to powerful SoCs - the vendors simply won't work with you and most of the documentation is under NDA.

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> it's extremely hard to get access to powerful SoCs - the vendors simply won't work with you

That's a really good point. I remember having the Pebble watch (this was pre-Apple and Android watches) and I think it had 128 KB of RAM total, including OS, background tasks, apps, etc. That was a mass produced and commercialized item though.

I've written about the other challenges in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25252022