>> Why isn't someone making a killing by cloning the Zero? Because at $5 it's not profitable. My company sells ~25-30% of the Raspberry Pis in Australia. Whe

>> Why isn't someone making a killing by cloning the Zero? Because at $5 it's not profitable. My company sells ~25-30% of the Raspberry Pis in Australia. When we spoke to the manufacturer for our region they said they weren't looking at manufacturing the Pi Zero V1.3 due to the economics. Their inventory of the Pi Zero has also dried up (as they focused on the RPI 3 Model B). When they did sell the the Pi Zero they sold it as a kit with marked up micro HDMI and USB adaptors. As @mmosta pointed out, the Raspberry Pi is heavily subsidised by sweetheart deals from their manufacturers and component vendors. This is all ok: The point of the Pi is to make computing accessible at a low price, not to make money. It will be interesting to see how the ecosystem as a whole plays out. It's hard to tell. I haven't seen an unsubsidised/non-VC company put out a "cheap" single board computer. The Pi Zero's closest competition (https://getchip.com/pages/chip https://getchip.com/pages/chip) has had a round and I suspect is getting a nice deal from All Winner too!