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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by sswaner on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:21PM (#13755444)
You are lamenting that a product released today is not available in sufficient quantities to be used in your commercial product? Sounds like an unreasonable expectation.
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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by joshvm on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:50PM (#13755730)
To counter: the Pi Zero is coming on for 18 months and is still regularly sold out.

I'm not expecting mass quantities on release, but the problem is that you can only buy one which makes development difficult. And if it's anything like the original zero, we'd have no idea when it will be available in quantity. Often it's useful to have more than one board e.g. one bare dev board, one in an enclosure/prototype. Having a month or more lead time for a replacement isn't practical.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by Dylan16807 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:34PM (#13755563)
No, he's saying that if the W is unavailable the same way the Zero historically has been then it's a problem. The Zero has been out for a good while.
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