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OpenJamma board - interest?
404:
Here's a great idea. Let's let shanghaiguide make whatever he wants. If you don't like it, then you don't have to buy it.
Everything works out in the end.
wesbrown18:
Hey, guys --
Don't be naive about the economics of building and producing a system.
While shanghaiguide could use any of these existing platforms, this means that he's tying his fate to the pricing of these existing platforms. It is very, very cheap in China to build a SoC system. The expensive part is the actual design and design testing.
Once he has a design that he's happy with, he can leverage the economies of scale in China to manufacture the OpenJAMMA board for far cheaper than he would if he had a cape. In the end, he would have far more margin per OpenJAMMA board sold -- it's a return on the amount of work he's invested.
An integrated OpenJAMMA platform is far more salable than an add-on to an existing SoC platform such as the BeagleBone -- people want to buy integrated components in a box, that they can plug into their arcade machines.. While shanghaiguide is not going to bundle MAME, it's just as easy for someone else to make a firmware image that includes MAME.
stan2323:
--- Quote from: 404 on May 04, 2013, 10:01:55 am ---Here's a great idea. Let's let shanghaiguide make whatever he wants. If you don't like it, then you don't have to buy it.
Everything works out in the end.
--- End quote ---
I second this.
Stan
sandheaver:
--- Quote from: 404 on May 04, 2013, 10:01:55 am ---Here's a great idea. Let's let shanghaiguide make whatever he wants. If you don't like it, then you don't have to buy it.
--- End quote ---
I don't know what to think of you assuming that I meant something else.
--- Quote ---Everything works out in the end.
--- End quote ---
Not favorably.
I encourage anyone and everyone capable to build a board from scratch and prove me wrong though. But if anyone does, I'll be very surprised indeed. Most folks with the talent to build a board from scratch would know not to given what's already on the market.
PROVE ME WRONG by getting the product to market successfully.
sharpfork:
I'm not really looking to argue with folks in this thread. OpenJamma is going to be built however shanghaiguide wants to build it.
I was a part of bringing this thread off topic and think we need to bring the discussion back to OpenJamma features more than alternatives for the implementation.
I do have a question specific to OpenJamma, is it going to be open software/ open hardware, or both?
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