Maybe it’s just what I’ve been noticing, but I feel like Arduino was already losing its share of the hobbyist market. The plethora of small, cheap esp32 devices have already been taking Arduino’s place.
In capitalism, the consumer isn’t the target audience. A business exists to make money. The more money you make, the more shareholders you gain, the more the shareholders demand BLOOD!
companies just can’t seem to know how to grow without line go up mentality.
That’s like saying “people just can’t seem to harness the advantages of cancer without dying”
If you never take money and get hooked by outside sources, you can just slowly grow, with no debt, beholden to no one
If you take the money with any strings attached at all, you basically have to grow like cancer or your company will be sold for parts. It’s inevitable at that point
Don’t take the money kids. If you have to take a business loan in the beginning - fine,
I meant to delete the comment to keep things simple, but what I was going to say is something like
fine, but debt is like gambling. There’s situations where it makes sense, but it’s addictive. It’s mortgaging your own future, even when it maths out it’s a risk - shit happens
And if you over leverage and under perform, it’s over. If you can pay yourself and your employees, you’re better off never taking on debt again.
Like Wegmans. It’s the very best grocery store, everyone who goes there agrees. They grow slowly because they only open new locations when they have the cash to do so, and so they never have to compromise on quality in any way
They seem to forget that “line go up” isn’t the primary objective. If you make a good product and give half a shit about your customers, the line goes up as a natural consequence.
I love the ESP32, was onboard with the ESP-8266 (might have the numbers wrong, it was the predecessor), but I thought the real difference between the ESP-32 and the Rpi was that the Rpi has an OS with a possible desktop even (and all that Libux has to offer basically), as the ESP is more of a uProcessor you program in C/C++?
Edit: Plesse disregard, I mixed up the posts and posted one levet too high too…
Many. But there too, I’m seeing many people move to VScode + platformio. I’m not saying Arduino is already dead, I’m just saying that the alternatives were already gaining ground.
Maybe it’s just what I’ve been noticing, but I feel like Arduino was already losing its share of the hobbyist market. The plethora of small, cheap esp32 devices have already been taking Arduino’s place.
Same with raspberrypi really.
companies just can’t seem to know how to grow without line go up mentality.
That’s just it, you don’t need to grow. Just sell a useful product at a reasonable price.
In capitalism, the consumer isn’t the target audience. A business exists to make money. The more money you make, the more shareholders you gain, the more the shareholders demand BLOOD!
No one forces you to sell shares.
Not for capitalism though
That’s like saying “people just can’t seem to harness the advantages of cancer without dying”
If you never take money and get hooked by outside sources, you can just slowly grow, with no debt, beholden to no one
If you take the money with any strings attached at all, you basically have to grow like cancer or your company will be sold for parts. It’s inevitable at that point
Don’t take the money kids. If you have to take a business loan in the beginning - fine,
was the comma a typo of a period, or did you have more to say here? if you have more to say i’m eager to listen
I meant to delete the comment to keep things simple, but what I was going to say is something like
fine, but debt is like gambling. There’s situations where it makes sense, but it’s addictive. It’s mortgaging your own future, even when it maths out it’s a risk - shit happens
And if you over leverage and under perform, it’s over. If you can pay yourself and your employees, you’re better off never taking on debt again.
Like Wegmans. It’s the very best grocery store, everyone who goes there agrees. They grow slowly because they only open new locations when they have the cash to do so, and so they never have to compromise on quality in any way
They seem to forget that “line go up” isn’t the primary objective. If you make a good product and give half a shit about your customers, the line goes up as a natural consequence.
Also rp2040 devices.
I love the ESP32, was onboard with the ESP-8266 (might have the numbers wrong, it was the predecessor), but I thought the real difference between the ESP-32 and the Rpi was that the Rpi has an OS with a possible desktop even (and all that Libux has to offer basically), as the ESP is more of a uProcessor you program in C/C++?
Edit: Plesse disregard, I mixed up the posts and posted one levet too high too…
To answer your question anyway, raspberry Pi made the rp2040 chip, which is a microcontroller similar to the esp, instead of a full fat computer SOC
But how many of those esp32s are programmed using the Arduino IDE and Arduino libraries?
Many. But there too, I’m seeing many people move to VScode + platformio. I’m not saying Arduino is already dead, I’m just saying that the alternatives were already gaining ground.
I program my EPS32s in micropython anyway.