Do you hear that hardware manufacturers? People are willing to pay a lot, and you don't have to redesign/upgrade every year, if you make a simple, hackable, usable system!
I wish more hardware companies thought like this
I wish more hardware companies thought like this
What's left at that point? Brand, mechanical design, and software... There's not a whole lot to differentiate yourself if you let go of the software piece.
Other routers done the bad way might make even more money -- which would easily explain why these are an exception.
I'm not sure what motivates you, but making money selling things people want to buy seems to get a lot of people out of bed in the morning.
And yet it's letting go of the software piece that differentiates the WRT54GL.
The software is just a part of the success.
That's only half of an argument.
Whether "people are willing to pay a lot" for such systems is beside the point to hardware manufactures, if they can make much more by making non simple and no hackable systems they renew each year.