Sounds like the second system effect. (The Mythical Man Month)

First one is simple and focused, the second one tries to be & do everything. And frequently never ships.

embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> First one is simple and focused

First time I've heard anyone call the Flipper Zero "simple" and "focused", most people seemed to have considered it a "swiss-knife" meant to just house a bunch of features and radios, meanwhile the One has less features but more connectivity and I/O.

But apparently you're not alone in feeling this, but I don't understand what from the submission makes you and others believe so, what exactly gave you this impression?

	▲	randusername an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well the first one was a microcontroller. And this one is an 8-core Arm computer and the project has ambitions of some notoriously difficult things: no binary blobs, full mainline support (including a NPU), reinventing small-screen UI for more serious handheld computing, and supporting a ton of high-bandwidth interfaces. This is not a simple step up in difficulty.

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salomonk_mur 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agreed. This will likely never ship with all the bloat. Custom AI model, custom OS, extremely custom architecture (2 "main" processors running independently...), barely reuses any of the previous work from Flipper Zero.

	▲	lxgr 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> 2 "main" processors running independently... On the other hand, this has been working pretty well for the first few Raspberry Pis! (Although they had the benefit of leveraging an existing smart TV based platform for that.)

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gwbas1c 22 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

They're very explicit that Flipper 1 isn't a "v2", but a device that targets different use cases.