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My interpretation: The Raspberry Pi Foundation wanted to be able to point to a product, technically available for $5, as a point of comparison against some of t
by khedoros1 10y ago
My interpretation: The Raspberry Pi Foundation wanted to be able to point to a product, technically available for $5, as a point of comparison against some of the super-cheap Allwinner boards. I think the margins are probably thinner than the larger Pi hardware, and I don't think they've ever intended to make enough that they'd be available in arbitrary quantities.
- noonespecial 10y agoThat's my take exactly. They needed an answer to CHiP and Orange Pi stat. When everything is tabulated, I expect they actually lose a tiny bit on each one. I even suspect they called it the "Zero" because it was going to be sold for BOM+Assembly (thus netting zero). Its an advertisement. Not a product. Giving them away in a magazine was brilliant.