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By Gavin van Marle

21/09/2012

Short article on how the UK-designed Raspberry Pi, a small, robust mobile computer that sells for $35, eventually came to be manufactured in the UK, rather than China. But how could a UK manufacturer match China’s cost levels? The answer lay in spending “as much time talking about the shipping of the product as the product itself”.

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