On January 5, 2016 at 16:05, Ernie Gilman said...
What is there of value about the development part of a system that makes the average customer want to pay much more for that development? Isn't the final control product the issue? I can have a car custom made or I can buy off a lot. If my goal is ease of driving, safety, and normal auto issues, why would it impress me that I could get a custom-made car?
Well, I am 5'2". Live in the North East US where we can get a lot of snow. I live in a place where you either live at the top of a hill or at the bottom of a hill or on a hill. I have to drive into NYC for job sites.
NYC garages charge an extra $10 for parking "oversized"
I sometimes have to run to Crestron and pack my trunk full of stuff or get a 55" LCD in my car.
So if I could get a custom car that was compact had a LOT of cargo space was great in the snow got 50+ MPG was a hybrid or used a fuel cell and had fully adjustable seats mirrors steering column and peddles or and a turbo and 0-60 in a nanosecond don't you think it'd be worth it if I could afford it?
Do you want to use a Personal Computer that has been developed since the 70's and has three fully developed and supported OS to pick from and hundreds of manufactures for parts or do you want a RaspberryPI and then have to learn computer architecture and programming to get all your software to work?
One will cost you hundreds to thousands of dollars, the other is about forty dollars.
Development costs are in EVERYTHING we use even drugs.
