And yet, the mouse has generated billions in revenue. Half of me loves the
PR6xx but the other half hates the serial interface. It's so bad. I assume
that with their own software they must have a different private API because
if they don't then they've made some very bad SWE decisions.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:31 AM edmund ronald <edmundronald@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
My impression is that the software geeks at the manufacturer see the
private API as job insurance.
And manufacturers are terrified of instruments turning into commodity
devices like mice.
Edmund
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:16 AM Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lessbones wrote:
Definitely not afraid of thedevices are
serial port devices— it was kind of recently that I realized how usb
constantly dropping off the map because of unsupported drivers in newOSs, but serial
devices just keep trucking along...
There wouldn't be such a problem if the manufacturers open sourced
the drivers, or at least published the USB protocol. But
a number of them seem to think they have some sort of "secret sauce"
that would be revealed by the software, or perhaps they simply
want to try and control who can get access to their instruments.
If it's the latter, then you wouldn't think it's a competitive
market where they actually want to sell instruments. If it's the
former, I think they over value the driver aspect. 99% of instrument
secret sauce is in the hardware design, manufacture and production
calibration process. There doesn't seem to be much new in how
you actually convert raw measurement data into calibrated measurements.
Cheers,
Graeme Gill.
