benjojoOct 7

Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens

My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then

Show threadvriska, thief of light Oct 7
@benjojo huh, siemens owns hackaday?? seems like they really wanted tindie and hackaday was incidental but that's still kind of weird
Show threadmorganOct 8
@leo @benjojo where do you get they only wanted Tindie? It's been just as, if not more neglected since the purchase, in particular, it seem in-progress plans to offer a disbursement provider that's not PayPal ground to a halt.
Show threadvriska, thief of light 
@morgan @benjojo siemen press release for the acquisition says it "will be the nucleus to accelerate our overall digital marketplace strategy", are supplyframe/findchips a "marketplace"?
Oct 8 at 3:58pmWeb
Show threadmorganOct 8
@leo @benjojo yup, and a far more lucrative one that Tindie
Show threadmorganOct 8
@leo @benjojo there's also a couple more sites in that whole ecosystem I can't remember, they're targeted to large corporate buyers