Quote from: smooth on September 23, 2015, 12:01:08 AM

Quote from: brg444 on September 22, 2015, 11:22:10 PM

The Altair 8800 was pretty much the shittiest computer.

The Altair analogy doesn't work at all.

That was created by a scrappy little company (<20 employees) on basically no budget and even then

"The Altair 8800 computer was a break-even sale for MITS"

It sold like hotcakes (maybe because at break-even it was a damn good value to hobbyists compared to DYI at the time, unlike 21 trying to sell $100 worth of DYI hardware for $400) forcing the company to massively expand just to deliver the orders. We'll see if that happens here. You know my guess (it won't). I doubt you are going to guess otherwise, but go ahead and make a prediction if you like.

If you read the actual history there is literally no similarity at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

Cool, but I don't care.

And actually it's more like 275$ of DYI hardware. So a 125$ markup for custom design, full software stack and micropayment server.

Did you also happen to miss this part?

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The real target cost for the 21 chip is pennies, not dollars, not hundreds of dollars, certainly not $400.

Drop the chip, embed the design in SoCs and were talking fractions of a penny.

Nice of you not to address any of the points or use cases you so casually pretended didn't exist earlier.