That’s the only reason I can come up with for why they continue to recycle old names for new boards with substantially different processors and architectures … UNO, NANO, MKR, etc.
The Nano thing is especially a huge pain in the keester to me. I don't try to answer questions on the others. Posters don't identify which of the 3000 variants that they are using so a lot of time can be wasted until that information is dragged out of them.
It is because they are trying to rationales their product rage, in the light of new cheaper ways of making the same thing which advancing technology makes possible. So they are making collections of the form factor, that is the size and shape, as a common class of devices. They are then leveraging the brand recognition that they have, to provide more powerful products at a lower cost for themselves and the consumers.
P.S. I am very very sorry for using the word "leveraging" I know it is management bollocks speak, but it does seem the right word to use.
For those not familiar with the term, see this:-
Note when they say British English they actually mean English, any other form of English is bollocks.
Speaking on English, I've tried unsuccessfully several times to parse this sentence but have been unable. Perhaps there are typos?
Does this help?
It is because they are trying to rationalize their product range,
looking for cheaper ways of making the same kind of thing with newer technology.
How about missing a comer? Try this:-
It is because they are trying to rationales their product rage, in the light of new cheaper ways of making the same thing, which advancing technology makes possible. So they are making collections of the form factor, that is the size and shape, as a common class of devices.
Nope, it wasn't the missing "comer" that tripped me up. It was "rationales their product rage".
No doubt the Middle English feel the same.
To the new user (I include myself), "Arduino" replaces "PIC," (or "computer") and encompasses consumer, off-the-shelf, ready-to-use-out-of-box, highly-configurable, open-source, "blink"-through-"rocket-ship," programmable micro-controllers, to include ESP, STM and more. It is to the modern hobby world as hot glue and beadazzler was to the '90s and Edmunds to the '40s - '20s. New users say "Arduino" without knowing more form factors (and functions) exist. Maybe "they" should write in the oft-referred-to, but rarely-read "How to get the best out of this forum" a page identifying and classifying the subtle changes of "Arduino," especially with the legacy boards. 1, 2, 3, not it.
What?
Middle English is not a people. Is is the language spoken in the Middle Ages. All the people who used to speak it naturally are long since dead.
Sorry dyslexic strikes again the word should have been "rationalise", coupled of course with a spell checker not designed for dyslexic spelling but simple typos.
Ahhhh ... we are indeed "two nations divided by a common language". The preferred US spelling is "rationalize". Also in US use, the word tends to have a more pejorative connotation:
Very true.
Yes there are lots of words with a z in them that are spelled with an s instead, like specialise. I have to do a two stage spell check for that, first spell it with a z and get the rest of the word correct, and then correct it with an s. Then tell the spell checker that this is now an acceptable word. It seems that spell checkers despite claiming to be English are not.
In the UK it is more like "get your ducks in a row" or "sort out".