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Re:Hardware-as-a-Service by bobthebuilders on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:20AM (#24949101)
Mechanical keyboards, not regular keyboards.
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Re:Hardware-as-a-Service by hakfoo on Saturday October 31, 2020 @02:39AM (#24949570)
That's a wildly malformed market too.

You have a lot of oddities in the mechanical keyboard hobby.

* For a while there was a lot of rebranding. Three or four of the most popular boards a few years ago were fundamentally the same Costar CST-104 with different logos.

* Some of the legacy players (Cherry and Unicomp) were bankrolled by sales outside the enthusiast market.

* There's a huge number of hobby projects that overlap heavily. A million "40/60% with an aluminium case and takes MX switches" kits. I suspect this offers poor economies of scale and the ability to hide large margins.

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