Le vendredi 10 juillet 2020 à 08:55 -0400, Przemek Klosowski a écrit :
The marginal cost of a digital key has got to be smaller than the marginal cost of the button
The marginal cost of a button is completely marginal, on devices that already include other buttons, on a assembly line that already builds a ton of such things. A physical button is a on-of, a digital key infrastructure is years of expensive maintenance and updates to keep going. And as you noted they have to include physical bybass for other reasons.
You’re used to computing costs as a software person, where hardware is an additional external expense. IOT manufacturers are first and foremost hardware people, they sell devices not bags of bits, they know how to make hardware as cheap as possible, and how to market hardware features so the marginal cost does not cost them a dime.
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