High-cost engineering (==low-cost product) tends to create lower-hackability/bricolage-potential products. True or false? Good or bad?
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is high cost eng to low cost product just because there's very high threshold to mass market appeal?
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eg: low-cost, low-power ARM chips are more costly to design than higher cost, high end chips
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ok I guess I mean most "easy" low cost products already out there so takes intense effort to achieve new ones.
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first Apple computer designed and built out of garage etc.
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Yeah, but chip it was built around was output of a mature industry already...
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sure but compare that to effort around any computer today. Standards much higher so threshold for acceptability much higher
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I'd like to fit arduino and R.Pi into that story. Fairly low-cost engineering, but also low-cost. But for hackers, not users

