It is one of the only devices (alongside Oppo clones) that can play Dolby Vision Profile 7 FEL (Full Enhancement Layer) with 100% accuracy. The Shield can play P7, but it ignores the FEL data; the Ugoos actually processes it.

That said, people don’t generally use Android on it, instead you boot to CoreELEC from an SD card and use Kodi.

Read about it, mammals will yawn when other non-mammals yawn.

> US automotive design standards are lax compared to those of Europe, where manufacturers must meet tough safety-first rules before mass-market “type approved” cars can be registered for use on public roads.

If not, any recommendations for alternative projects?

https://docs.inkeep.com/faqs/comparisons

Might help.

> 3. Eligibility: The Challenge is open to legal residents of the United States. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older as of their date of entry. The Challenge is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited by law. Employees and contractors of the MTA, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and directors (collectively the “Employees”), as well as members of an Employee’s immediate family and/or those living in the same household, are ineligible to participate in the Challenge.

Worth a listen!

> “point solution” in technology or business describes a specialized offering – it can be a piece of software, product, or tool designed to address one specific problem within an organization or enterprise.

Plenty of products start this way but due to success get hungrier/greedier and through internal and external pressures expand with additional SKUs to expand their TAM (total addressable market) and their value.

> The proof is flawed and I retract the claim that I proved that find + mkdir is Turing complete. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41117141. I will update the article if I could fix the proof.

The upside to having a healthy number of minnows is, assuming it's low effort to have them onboard in a mostly self-services manner, then they can help the business grow in a healthy way while the team focuses on the larger and more complicated opportunities that may easily lead to nothing. If all you have are the whales it becomes feast or famine but if you have a healthy combination of small and large you'll be well covered. And of course you're banking on a percentage of the smaller customers eventually growing too.

Again, it's about the product and selling motion. Back to the topic, in this instance Broadcom did the math and they simply don't have a product that lends itself well to smaller shops and just isn't worth their time and effort to pursue.