[kierank]

Exactly as you see in this comment chain, engineers at startups get fed up of the embedded industry being stuck in the 1980s (long sales process with many meetings and salespeople, custom blobs galore, custom distros, long lead times, high prices etc).

You cannot iterate quickly based on the glacial embedded industry. I am amazed by the way we are quoted 3 month wait for a shipment (even pre-covid) without anyone batting an eyelid.

You're a bit like the satellite industry looking at Starlink and saying "well it's not true satellite, doesn't have X, Y and Z" and pointing to a few specialist applications where legacy satellite is highly suited and ignoring the masses of business applications that have moved to Starlink.

[leonheld]

I mean, I won't even try to rebate you, I agree with you, mostly. lol.

My only fear is that, it's really, really hard to get a safe, performant product without really knowing what you're doing. And although RPi and others do a good job at the prototyping level, it becomes messy very quick.

We're trying to be better, though, there are some nice solutions popping up here and there.