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shadowpho 19 hours ago

There’s no money in it. Embedded doesn’t pay compared to phones/tablets. So companies are putting their money into that

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Neywiny 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm fully aware of why there's been no improvement, it just sucks for me.

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xyzzy_plugh 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I left embedded when I realized everything, at least in my neck of the woods, was going to end up being cramming phone parts into things that were not phones. The writing has been on the wall for a while now.

Even now as a consumer I can see the stagnation. It's the same parts year after year. Or you become a phone. You have my sympathy.

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Neywiny 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's what this is looking like tbh. I guess I'm just hoping for a miracle. Maybe chiplets will save us.

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badgersnake 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you saying that partly why every device is a “smart” device? Because it’s cheaper to fit components with connectivity already built in so you might as well use it?

	▲	Neywiny 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At embedded world 2024 they pushed IoT for other reasons. They wanted us to do it for security and updates. No more telling users to put a bin on a flash drive and plug it into a hidden port under the coffee maker or something idk, just be Internet connected. I wouldn't ever say it's cheaper materialsb (though ESP32s are very cheap) or upfront labor, but I'm sure it's cheaper on the support side for bug fixes and stuff. And then they can sell your data, too. Never forget that