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Comment by anthonyb | Hacker News Reader

The title of the kickstarter is:

   MiiPC - Power to the Parents!

and then the whole blurb is about how it lets you keep an eye on your kids online. Does that give you a clue that it's not about the hardware?

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If their innovation is not in hardware, one wonders why they're designing hardware at all. Why not put their ROM on an existing ARM box?

Because it's designed for the living room? A generic ARM box won't look as good, have their branding or be as appealing to their target market.

Also, who's to say that they're building it? This is a relatively easy thing to contract out, and from the motherboard pics it looks relatively generic.

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