> Prices for those in the US (like me) just tripled due to import tariffs (ordering the 32 GB model went from $400 to $1500).
This was the biggest takeaway for me in this post. In the past, to experiment with a particular piece of new hardware, we had to a) obtain the hardware, and b) obtain or create software for it. With a) fast becoming out-of-reach for most people, this puts a dampener on b).
There are a lot of open source developers outside the US. While development will certainly take a hit, the world is larger than the US. For more niche boards, it may not even change things much - they are often hard to get due to limited supplies and now more boards will just end up in the hands of developers on other continents.
China has 1 billion more people than the US. These board would still get built, it's just that you won't be able to read the manuals because they will be in Chinese.
Reading this line made me so mad. I've been a huge fan of lower power ARM CPUs... this literally just halt/hampers progress in this country. I can't believe we have to put up with 4 full years of this crap.
I would have purchased this board in a heartbeat otherwise. Ugh.
This was the biggest takeaway for me in this post. In the past, to experiment with a particular piece of new hardware, we had to a) obtain the hardware, and b) obtain or create software for it. With a) fast becoming out-of-reach for most people, this puts a dampener on b).