Last Updated on February 27, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
OpenBCI made in China offers many products which are also offered by www.openbci.com. But we do not know if they are entangeled or not. They where also entiteled by www.openbci.com as clone company, but not as an official low-cost alternative. Would this not be declared as this if Texas Instruments is behind it? At least we know that it is a company who want to maximize profit out of OpenBCI made in China. And the stragety is similar to PiEEG. Offer products like repaired WIFI shield products, and then pull it from the market again, to control our reaction, which is negative if people do these kind of things.
But if they where entangeled officially with www.openbci.com, would they do what they have done. And that is to copy the images of www.openbci.com, make the eyes of the people invisible, and use it as their own product offer out of it?
All of this is eventually a violation of the unwritten rules of open source hardware, which we heard previously. But if they would be entangeled with each other, OpenBCI made in China would not have done this. And would they not have coordinated the introduction of a low cost product.
But it could be also a cheap trick of Texas Instruments to disguise themselves. What they do seem to be done by demo makers, But it could eventually also be something independent. Eventually they are entangeled, but not very closely.
It is not a big success to this date. And we suppose it is a marketing study of Texas Instruments to find out about Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org. The effort was quiet big to do what they have done, We do not think that it is possible to make a lot of money out of what they to. So we suppose this is most probably the product of a big shoot who want to find our about every TI chip user, which makes it likely that Texas Instruments is disguising behind it, and so it is not a direct competitor to www.openbci.com but a marketing study of a big company.
Since it feels like there is a big brother behind who watches us all. But why not to watch the big brother as well and to see what he will do in the future. We only now that whoever is behind it, OpenBCI made in China seems not be a big success. And it seems still not established so that also the Swiss and the Americans buy from OpenBCI in China as well.