Not necessarily, look at all the projects on Kickstarter. There are still a lot ...

jmkni · on Nov 10, 2016

Yeah, but those projects stand on the shoulders of giants. They are building on top of already existing open source hardware and software.

orly_bookz · on Nov 10, 2016

That's true of everything, though?

I mean a shitty $2 shirt wouldn't exist but for the power looms of the 19th century...

nradov · on Nov 10, 2016

Apple built their first computers out of commercially available standard electronic components.

maxerickson · on Nov 10, 2016

Don't you need to look at the products that hit the mass market?

A successful experiment on Kickstarter isn't really a fair comparison to the Apple I and Apple II, you need the Apple II of the Kickstarter project to make for an interesting comparison.