Comment by chrismccord

To be fair, Pi Zero's are $5, which will happily run nerves. Outfitting with relevant hardware for the task at hand will of course increase the price (as would any hardware product), but the "$35 pi" is a little misleading. You are right that it will require larger hardware constraints, but there is a lot of nuance to the price discussion. Operationally, nerves grants you the ability to provision fleets and deploy updates in the field, rollback bad firmware pushes, etc. Value wise, this kind of feature set out of the box should factor in to life-time device cost considerations. I'm not aware of an equivalent offering on other platforms, but I'm admittedly just a spectator in this space.