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On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:32 PM, James L james6.28318530@gmail.com wrote:
First off, I don't think Intel's product will actually succeed. Why? Corporations make money by selling the next product at the end of the life of the product. In this case, though, unless Intel is getting into the refrigerator business and every other business they plan to release every upgradeable product into, every company in the deal must be making money by selling the next product. Intel won't have a problem with this, as people will happily buy the "brains" upgrade, but the partner companies will not be able to sell upgrades without making significant improvements to their products (other than RAM, processor, etc.) which will make the products more expensive or increase their life cycle (both things making the partner company uncompetitive). So, if any company makes any kind of products, it will be a single more expensive one, with poor quality parts so that it will fail sooner rather than later.
if intel opened up the standard, such that the companies could drop intel at any time and use a lower-cost ARM or MIPS SoC, then the standard actually has a chance of success.
if however it's mandatory to have PCIe and USB 3.1 or some extremely high-end interface, which basically says "intel only guys, sorry" or if intel says "no.. and if you try we'll stop supplying you with our processors", then yes you're absolutely right, it's dead.
i noticed recently that LG just dropped their modular phone concept. "no buyers". 900,000 supporters of the phonebloks campaign and 350 MILLION people reached world-wide is not enough?? it says there's something wrong. oh wait, i know! LG didn't publish the interfaces as an open standard....
google? worked with a group of 3rd party companies that took google's money to create MIPI UniPro chipsets, patented the standard and implementation(s) locking *anyone* out for the next 20 years... then acted surprised when dave hakkans absolutely slated them on his website after they failed to make anything remotely like he'd envisioned, four years prior.
... yeah.... :)
l.