Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced
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@gjacobse lol easy there, wouldn't want your blood pressure to spike
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@NattNatt said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:
Ah, wasn't sure how advanced stuff like that was now a days! But yeah, exactly, if thousands can be made per hour, then that seems easy enough to make money (obviously you have to put the initial capital down for the actual machines...but I digress)!
It's pretty much trackable with Moore's Law (yes, I know that it really is supposed to predict, but you can use it broadly to predict technological pricing in general it still works), the problem is that even many IT people tend to view the world as "technology as it stands right this moment is advanced as humanly possible" and/or "I have some unrealistic expectations of far out technology."
Flying cars are the greatest testament to that, but really this is all for the most part predictable, it's not surprising to me, and comments about labour and so forth, well, what exactly will people be assembling? It's not 1965, these are all machine made as stated by @scottalanmiller and mass production means lower prices. Even if individually hand made ones cost more than $1, with increasing production you'll lower the price... on top of the already predictable price drops of technology.
And companies often build technology based on pricing tomorrow, not today, because we know the cost will drop to create it and increase our margins to sell it.
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@tonyshowoff said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:
And companies often build technology based on pricing tomorrow, not today, because we know the cost will drop to create it and increase our margins to sell it.
Right. If you can "just pull off" squeaking by making this for $1 today, you'll be making it for $.85 next year and reaping big profits because no one is expecting a new model for a few years... it's an 8bit educational machine. You could make the same model for five years or more without a problem.
The Apple ][ was the main product from Apple for something like eight years!! Sure, they tweaked it a bit, but it was basically unchanged in a significant way for like sixteen years, half of those it was the main product. Even once sales slowed way down at the end, it sold for thousands of times more than it cost to manufacture at that point. Today, we could make an Apple ][ for like $2.... most of that being the plastic!
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I'd have to run the numbers to be absolutely sure but I suspect the "true cost" of that board is $0.75USD (max) as you see it in the pic above.
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@MattSpeller said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:
I'd have to run the numbers to be absolutely sure but I suspect the "true cost" of that board is $0.75USD (max) as you see it in the pic above.
You mean including the $.74 proc?
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@scottalanmiller said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:
@MattSpeller said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:
I'd have to run the numbers to be absolutely sure but I suspect the "true cost" of that board is $0.75USD (max) as you see it in the pic above.
You mean including the $.74 proc?
I'm sceptical they'd cost that much in quantity but if you have a source that says otherwise I'll believe ya
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@MattSpeller said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:
@scottalanmiller said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:
@MattSpeller said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:
I'd have to run the numbers to be absolutely sure but I suspect the "true cost" of that board is $0.75USD (max) as you see it in the pic above.
You mean including the $.74 proc?
I'm sceptical they'd cost that much in quantity but if you have a source that says otherwise I'll believe ya
I just saw that the proc was quoted at that price and the board could only be a few cents beyond that, tops. The board without any chips on it is SO cheap.
