mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoDiscontinuing the Teensy at Adafruitblog.adafruit.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down11
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minus-squareOnfireNFS@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-23 days agoSo instead of selling on both Sparkfun and Adafruit, having what seems like a monopoly on Teensy style boards, Sparkfun decided it would be smarter to stop selling to Adafruit and force their hand to make an open source competitor That’s an interesting business decision…
minus-squaremcavoya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoYeah, there is more going on here than PJRC, Sparkfun or Adafruit are telling us. In no universe does simply cutting off a revenue stream make sense. I keep seeing the word “drama” thrown around. I suspect it’s not taking place in an online forum, but in the real world.
So instead of selling on both Sparkfun and Adafruit, having what seems like a monopoly on Teensy style boards, Sparkfun decided it would be smarter to stop selling to Adafruit and force their hand to make an open source competitor
That’s an interesting business decision…
Yeah, there is more going on here than PJRC, Sparkfun or Adafruit are telling us. In no universe does simply cutting off a revenue stream make sense.
I keep seeing the word “drama” thrown around. I suspect it’s not taking place in an online forum, but in the real world.