[thrwwycbr]

The reason why the Mirai botnet is still at large is: Android.

From a business perspective nobody wants to pay the costly people that can do microcontroller programming. Frontend devs are dirt cheap, especially for something as simple as that interface displaying the bar charts.

[PeterisP]

From employee perspective it was my impression that EE developers tend to get lower salaries than web developers.

But it could be the case that building an android or web app for a simple UI would take less dev-months than an embedded app with similar functionality.

[marcosdumay]

> building an android or web app for a simple UI would take less dev-months than an embedded app with similar functionality

I'm quite sure that's correct.

[throw310822]

There is also an enormous amount of flexibility gained when, instead if designing and building your own single-purpose device, you just use a cheap, mass produced, off the shelf, general purpose device.

[justinclift]

> nobody wants to pay the costly people that can do microcontroller programming

The embedded world isn't known for paying well.

[MichaelZuo]

Actually competent microcontroller programmers definitely earn way more then bargain barrel front end devs.

[patates]

You can easily say the same for the actually competent front-end devs.

[MichaelZuo]

Yes but the original point is that 'competent front-end devs' aren't needed in this case, so they can get away with the bottom of the barrel.