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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:02 PM, m016fec3 hier@wolfgangromey.de wrote:
As I wrote, I now understand, what "shipping costs" means: a pledge to secure worldwide shipping. As others, I see no reason, why people in the usa should not make a pledge for that.
But the situation may change in the future. As everything is (will be) free in the board, the laptop and the pc, there in no reason, why the boards and everything else are in the future not build in another countries, for example in germany.
true!! however it turns out that on close investigation the costs are higher.... *at the moment*.
however as i outline in the lpx podcast (full version) with the current economic world climate and the USA's highly irresponsible financial policy of hyper-inflating the US dollar (used as the world's reserve currency), that may well change in the future.
i've discussed this with other people and was shocked to learn that what i was *merely hypothesising* has in fact *already been discussed* by the people who control china's economic stability.
if china decides to no longer track the US dollar's hyper-inflational policy, the price of importing goods from china will climb first by a factor of two, then five, then ten, then twenty and beyond.
now, given that china's population is so large that the people in power (note i didn't say "the chinese government") have to *engineer* situations to keep everyone busy so that they don't riot or start a war, it's really REALLY critical that there be a product strategy that can continue to supply export of computing appliances to the rest of the world.
*THIS* is the "nightmare scenario" for which EOMA68 is designed.
and i'm dealing with fuckwits on half a dozen forums telling me that the A20 is an "obsolete" processor, that they're boycotting Allwinner, and "how can you justify $1200 i might as well buy a macbook for that".
it's like... these people have _no_ idea of the shitstorm that's about to unfold on a global scale.
l.