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Re:Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic by m463 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:38AM (#24744697)
I think it's hard to get funding for that business model.

Really, the chances of getting funded go way up when you have patents, exclusivity, a monopoly, etc.

Re:Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic by piva00 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:04AM (#24744771)
Because it's easy to commodotise it. If all the designs are open then the race is to who can manufacture it better but there's a technological limit to that and the return on investment is quite low. What would be a company's market differentiator in this? Quality of construction is easily achievable nowadays, price will be low (as the market is very price-sensitive, who will be buying US$ 100 cases for their Pis?), there is not much incentive to participate in it, even more as the market is quite niche.

Maybe a company doing the packaging and selling of open-source hardware as whole product, much like as Mutable Instruments did with modular synthesizers, could work but then you aren't simply making cases anymore.

Re:Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic by srtjstjsj on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:53AM (#24745762)
Chinese companies don't seem to mind doing this. The answer to thread OPs question is that all the stuff they want is sold by Chinese manufacturers.