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On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:39:12 +0000, David <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>On 11/03/2012 05:13, Mark Borgerson wrote:
>> In article<95fb58fb-5288-4f2e-9c49-
>> e42988712d2b@q18g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, gnuarm@gmail.com says...
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>>> On Mar 10, 4:44 pm, David<nos...@nospam.com>  wrote:
>>>> On 08/03/2012 08:21, keithr wrote:
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>>>>> On 8/03/2012 9:00 AM, Don McKenzie wrote:
>>>>>> OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?
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>>>>>> After talks at the recent Embedded conference in Germany (2012), Olimex
>>>>>> decided to go ahead with the production of two new boards that were very
>>>>>> similar to the Rasberry Pi. The first one they should have prototypes in
>>>>>> the coming weeks.
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>>>>>> The second will be 3 to 6 months before production boards will be seen,
>>>>>> so I won't cover it in this report, however the CPU specs on this second
>>>>>> board, are almost identical to the RPi microcontroller chip, and board.
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>>>>>> Olimex describes this board as a bridge to the linux development
>>>>>> community and the Duinomite/Arduino/Maple/Pinguino world of developers.
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>>>>>> This will be completely Open Hardware / Open Source Project, all CAD
>>>>>> files will be available so everyone can download modify, and use them.
>>>>>> Same with the software.
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>>>>>> More Info:
>>>>>> http://www.duinomite.com/olinuxino-a-serious-rasberry-pi-competitor/
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>>>>> I suppose that it is the most sincere form of flattery. Looks like
>>>>> Olimex disagrees with all those on the other thread that reckon that the
>>>>> Pi is a waste of time.
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>>>> Hmm, strangely enough there was a link in another thread here where the
>>>> main guys from Olimex were trashing the R-pi a bit and doubting they
>>>> could make it for the price.
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>>>> Do you think they have an ulterior motive and not exactly unbiased position?
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>>> I'm sure they wish they could sell 10,000 of anything in the first day
>>> its on the market.  Wouldn't we all?
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>> Ummm-it's not too hard to sell 10,000 of anything if you spec it right
>> and don't  actually deliver the product!  ;-)
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>> Mark Borgerson
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>None of that is by any means trivial.
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>You need to put significant effort into getting that information out to 
>the right people, convincing the sales channel that this is the right 
>thing to push as well as the media.
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>Then get 10000 people to commit to buying before delivery
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>Anyone who can do that needs to put in a lot of effort.
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>Not delivering - well that is easy.
>Keeping momentum and recovering from it could be challenging.
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>I'm just not so sure why so many people appear to want them to fail.

And that shirt still hasn't been ironed.  No product, no win; good product
(even subsidized by Broadcom, funny situation - did they order too many
millions/) possible big win.  Result not known yet.

?-)