Types — Overview
Before managing types, it helps to be clear on what they're types of. For what a platform itself is, see Platform — Overview — this page covers the two categories built on top of it.
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Device Type
A device type is a hardware category — derived from device.deviceTypeName — independent
of which platform it happens to be under. It's what a project attaches to when it wants to
offer software to a category of hardware, and what an offering policy scopes to (see
Manage Device Type).
Platform Type
A platform type is an OS/platform category — derived from device.platformName. It owns a
Version (an image reference) and a hierarchy of the device types that belong to it. Where
device type answers "what kind of hardware is this," platform type answers "what kind of
platform is this" (see Manage Platform Type).