22 Sep
2019
22 Sep
'19
3:21 a.m.
On Sunday, September 22, 2019, David Niklas doark@mail.com wrote:
Why is all the opensource stuff always overpriced? Really, this is not the first project.
Because there are not enough people to justify lower volume manufacturing prices and techniques.
The setup and teardown costs for PCBA remain the same no matter the length of the production line.
All the Tape and Reel cartridges take exactly the same time to install.
Then, the products are just not as good so normal people do not want them in the first place.
Whoops.
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