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minus-squareWrathEnchanter@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 month agoMord important question: Why do they all have their own system?
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoCost, Parts availability They’re building them out of cheap SBC with sd cards. It’s cheaper to put four economy SBC’s in than one computer that can handle 4 displays.
minus-squareBanMe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agowhat is my purpose? You show a Mt Dew ad at a single store in Ketchikan, AK
minus-squareseatwiggy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoor, hear me out, a backlit piece of paper
minus-squareAuth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agosorry to easy we’d rather go with a company that specializes in this task and charges a monthly subscription
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoThey did that for years. It’s a good servicable option. Of course, printing all those out and shipping them all over the world isn’t without cost. These can be animated. Ideally, they can have an attract mode to improve sales. Corporate can force the hand of small shops to put the flavors in they want to market. There are probably as many pros as there are cons. You’re 100% correct, they’re not necessary
minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI’m pretty sure its shopped because I’ve never seen a machine with actual displays in it for each flavor lol. They all use paper cut outs.
minus-squareTiger_Man_@szmer.infolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agobecause computing is a forgotten magic and no one knows how to correctly operate those black boxes
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoMaybe only the one on the right is a screen so you can diagnose things, but the rest are paper?
Mord important question: Why do they all have their own system?
Cost, Parts availability
They’re building them out of cheap SBC with sd cards.
It’s cheaper to put four economy SBC’s in than one computer that can handle 4 displays.
what is my purpose?You show a Mt Dew ad at a single store in Ketchikan, AK
Oh GOD, can’t I pass some butter?
or, hear me out, a backlit piece of paper
sorry to easy we’d rather go with a company that specializes in this task and charges a monthly subscription
As is the way of marketing.
They did that for years. It’s a good servicable option.
Of course, printing all those out and shipping them all over the world isn’t without cost.
These can be animated. Ideally, they can have an attract mode to improve sales.
Corporate can force the hand of small shops to put the flavors in they want to market.
There are probably as many pros as there are cons.
You’re 100% correct, they’re not necessary
I’m pretty sure its shopped because I’ve never seen a machine with actual displays in it for each flavor lol. They all use paper cut outs.
because computing is a forgotten magic and no one knows how to correctly operate those black boxes
Maybe only the one on the right is a screen so you can diagnose things, but the rest are paper?