Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

"Aruna Hewapathirane via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

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 ?

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.