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Was expecting a Raspberry Pi Laptop connected to iCloud or something.

Yeah I don't see any reason for this to be PiCloud over PyCloud. I don't know how long it's been named PiCloud but it seems like they're trying to cash in on Raspberry Pis success.

PiCloud has been around for years and has been presented at conferences and whatnot. Raspberry Pis are only a year or two old.

PiCloud dev here. PiCloud has been in existence since early 2009. That we share a "Pi" with Raspberry Pi is just a coincidence; it didn't even exist when we were founded.

We aren't named PyCloud as that would imply we are solely for python, which we are not. While we have very close ties to python (namely the powerful language bindings), we support every programming language.

That's exactly what I was expecting, there was a home made one the other day posted, I was expecting to see that productised and available for preorder or something..

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