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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/7/21 8:27 AM, mwilson--- via talk
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">"Aruna Hewapathirane via talk" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org"><talk@gtalug.org></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Some of the fruit named Pi boards have hardware specs way better as well
but price is very affordable.
I am wondering why the price is so low compared to the Raspberry Pi ? Or
are we simply paying for the Raspberry brand name ?
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I think it's the usual Chinese manufacturing cost advantage. Those fruit
and nano pi's are from Shenzhen or Guangzhou.
Professor Michael Hudson wrote a book, _Killing the Host_. He lays out
the fact that with the Finance/Insurance/Real-Estate processing ~40% of
GDP in US or UK, that functions as overhead cost on US/UK manufacturing.
You just can't match Chinese prices with that level of management cost.
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Add to that, ISO certifications, internal audits, and other
political correctness policies. <br>
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