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Re:Arduino TRE by CamperBob2 on Saturday April 04, 2015 @09:44PM (#9322826)
Sounds like you need to educate yourself a bit. There's more to microcontrollers than Arduino.

I was using AVRs long before the Arduino platform popularized them (does that make me an MCU hipster?) Even ten years ago there were far better chips. Somehow AVR not only outcompeted those chips, but came to utterly dominate its market niche. Why do you suppose that is?

Your position is reminiscent of those who expressed incredulity at the success of iOS when it didn't do anything that wasn't already being done at the time it was introduced. There's something you Just Don't Get. If I were you, I'd wonder what that might be.

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Re:Arduino TRE by danellis on Saturday April 04, 2015 @09:50PM (#9322843)
> Why do you suppose that is?

Marketing and the Arduino IDE.

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Re:Arduino TRE by CamperBob2 on Saturday April 04, 2015 @09:52PM (#9322848)
(I edited my comment to point out that the AVR chips predate the Arduino platform by several years, and that there were technically superior parts on the market even then.)
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