4 ms·
It took me a few seconds to figure out that this isn't a "Raspberry" product. I don't know if the "Pi" name is protected but even if it isn't it's pretty mislea
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
It took me a few seconds to figure out that this isn't a "Raspberry" product. I don't know if the "Pi" name is protected but even if it isn't it's pretty misleading to use it.
- SftwreEngnr 6y agoWhy did you think it was necessary to explain your thought process?
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- leke 6y agoEspecially as there already is a PiZero https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero/
- xnyan 6y agoMaybe confusing, but it's standard at this point. See RockPi and OrangePi.
- rubatuga 6y agoNanoPi and Banana Pi as well.
- ausjke 6y agoLet's call all the rest Clone Pi, there are so many and it's hard to count. To be fair, Raspberry Pi got its idea from BeagleBoard then Beagle Bone along with Arduino, small ARM boards with Linux. The problem with Clone-Pi series is that none of them are FCC-certified, while Raspberry Pis are.
- tutfbhuf 6y agoWhat does it mean to be FCC-certified?
- StavrosK 6y agoI believe it means you can manufacture products that use them.
- ausjke 6y agoexactly, currently those clone-pi are sold as a devkit basically, but they're essentially used like an official product which is 'illegal', I never got the idea why the vendor did not certify their boards, it is really not much when they are shipping (tens of) thousands of these boards.
- StavrosK 6y agoThey're probably trying to make them as cheap as possible.
- Squonk42 6y agoAnd LicheePi Zero, LicheePi Nano...
- djsumdog 6y agoI forgot about the Banana Pi. I was using one as a router for a while, but it kept crashing and the whole thing turns into a switch when it can't load an OS (not great for security): https://battlepenguin.com/tech/banana-pi-bpi-r1-fails-into-an-insecure-state/ https://battlepenguin.com/tech/banana-pi-bpi-r1-fails-into-a...
- agumonkey 6y agoI think the issue comes from the fact that rpizero is an actual raspberry thing, so zeropi is 90% of that name in a different order. Pretty confusing tbh.
- oliwarner 6y agoIf you omit Raspberry, sure. If you're going to truncate the whole thing to rpizero, the rpi being first, is quite important. From 36,000ft, there's perhaps a similarity if you squint a bit, but as soon as you see the product, you know it's not a Raspberry Pi Zero. And that matters even if you don't know what a Raspberry Pi Zero looks like, because you have no frame of reference to confuse this with (everybody who's heard of a Raspberry Pi Zero, knows what it looks like).
- y04nn 6y ago"Pi" is the new "-ola" [1]. But I agree, very confusing since there is already a "Pi Zero". [1] http://www.friendsofthephonograph.org/Factola/Factola%20Definition.htm http://www.friendsofthephonograph.org/Factola/Factola%20Defi...
- sosodev 6y agoThis isn’t uncommon. Other non-raspberry SBCs use the pi suffix. RockPi and OrangePi are a couple that come to mind.
- moonbug 6y ago...and they all get cease-and-desists.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]