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by voakbasda 1226 days ago
And while I’m ranting on this topic…

Speaking as a veteran embedded engineer, I think their biggest mistake was outsourcing the building of their hardware. At the very least, they probably would have saved money had they have hired an experienced in-house team.

Regardless, I think they should have focused solely on the software and enabled others to put the stack on custom hardware. I can’t imagine how much money they pissed away on the hardware, while the basic stack still needed gross improvement. They spread themselves too thin by being jacks-of-all-trades, so they were masters of none.