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Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales

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Desk Rabbit wrote:

>> Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel
>> improves hardware sales
>> 
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>> 
>> The biggest selling CPU boards of all time are those that have a
>> debugging port for Uboot and systems that ship with stock Linux kernels.
>> 
>> These in turn have made the companies that make CPUs and release
>> developer boards with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel the
>> most successful on the planet displacing all other competitors in the
>> same market.
>> 
>> The lesson for Linux gadget companies is to release ALL their hardware
>> with built in Uboot serial debugging port, and use stock Linux kernels.
>> Dump the uboot and Kernels to some download link to comply with GPL.
>> Then you got the makings of a successful product.
>> 
>> What tends to happen is that people with time and tinkering
>> experience upgrade the Kernel and improve on deficiencies and make
>> secondary products that you can use to improve your own product,
>> or it may create secondary sales, or it may lead to entire new
>> class of products that you can make with all the new drivers, and
>> hardware the tinkerers have got working for your product.
>> 
>> For the fabless semiconductor companies in China for example,
>> this has led to complete world domination with working CPUs and
>> numerous hardware on a time scale that no one have been able to match.
>> 
>> Some of these companies are making so much money they no longer
>> want to make money by making any of their own gadgets. Instead they make
>> completely new customized boards, with serial debug port, Linux kernel
>> and uboot as a package for about $2000 for anybody
>> that wants to pay this start up cost. They can turn around these
>> new products in days to weeks.
>> These ventures usually turn into $1 million orders within months.
>> The time scales and time frames are just unbelievable.
>> 
>> For western companies that want to make use of these
>> incredible resources, they need to have their own Linux teams ready
>> to accept new hardware and add on their own software to make
>> their IoT devices to finished products in months to make profit.
>> To make the known formula work for your products,
>> leave in the serial debug port, and dump uboot and Linux to some
>> download site to satisfy the GPL and you got a product that will
>> sell and sell for years to come.
>> 
> 
> Got an example of one of these boards returning $1 million dollar orders?

Yes.

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Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-16 22:02 +0000
  Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-17 17:16 +0100
    Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-17 18:44 +0000
      Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-17 21:06 +0100
        Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-17 21:39 +0000
          Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 09:50 +0100
            Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-18 21:15 +0000
  Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 12:47 +0100
    Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-19 14:09 +0200
      Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 14:36 +0100

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