> > *It may not be relevant for hobbyists that always want to have the latest > hardware and replace their board every month, but it is HIGHLY relevant for > all kinds of industry usage where a hardware needs to stay available and > stable over a longer period. There it does not matter when the device > itself is a bit outdated, it would be much more expensive for companies to > change a whole machine just because a simple controller board is no longer > available. And when BBB will be avilable for more than 5 years, this is > really very good for this area.* > > *And from my feeling that's where BBB goes to: many companies are already > using it for professional purposes while RasPi and the others are more or > less for hobbyists.* >
This is where you, and "the industry" would be wrong. The beaglebone black is not a commercial product. Use it as such at your own "peril". Which is to say. DO not expect to get any sympathy from this camp . . . On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Karl Karpfen <karlkarpfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-05-20 18:15 GMT+02:00 Chris Morgan <chmor...@gmail.com>: > >> Isn't 10 years just the total life of the chip/product line? This >> doesn't say TI is going to be advancing that processor line. >> > > Plesse chek out this thread, there is a link to a TI-statement where they > say it will be available for a bit more than nine years at least (from now > on). > > >> >> Consider that right now the Pi2 has a quad core processor. If TI isn't >> going to be keeping up with that kind of pace of processor development >> for the AM335x line (or maybe its the am3xxx line?) is a single core >> 1GHz processor going to be relevant in a year or five? >> >> > It may not be relevant for hobbyists that always want to have the latest > hardware and replace their board every month, but it is HIGHLY relevant for > all kinds of industry usage where a hardware needs to stay available and > stable over a longer period. There it does not matter when the device > itself is a bit outdated, it would be much more expensive for companies to > change a whole machine just because a simple controller board is no longer > available. And when BBB will be avilable for more than 5 years, this is > really very good for this area. > > And from my feeling that's where BBB goes to: many companies are already > using it for professional purposes while RasPi and the others are more or > less for hobbyists. > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
