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Going public will fuck them up. Every corporate move will be tied to the stock. It will inevitably destroy them.
Which, at this point, I’m here for. Although I do miss the days when they were a force for good. Or at least nerds. Ah well. Sayonara, you insulting bastards.
Raspberry Pi 5 is the first model that had 0 hype online. It seems people have already started to move on.
Considering I could order an Orange Pi with 32gb of ram and still cant get a Rp5.... yeah the king is dead.
A couple years of not being able to buy them anywhere close to MSRP did enough damage I guess. Plus it exposed people to some alternatives.
Plus the Pi5 sucks.
Can you elaborate why? I’m curious
Too high power draw and very expensive. 25watt is basically the same as a mini PC but with less performance and worse software compatibility.
The price with all the required "accessories" puts it around 90-110 bucks. Awfully close to the mini PC as well
Jeff Geerling recently made a video about it
https://youtu.be/jjzvh-bfV-E
For the price you can by a pretty competent n100 based mini PC which beats the hell out of the pi for a lot of tasks. Makers can get a cheaper solution via esp32 or clones... so what real market is there for it?
Pi isn't dead but the IPO would be a hail mary for funding while they figure out how not to go bankrupt.
Considering they retail for about what you can get a decent used mini PC for, one which would run circles around a Pi, I can certainly see why. At its current price, I would never consider a Pi.
I think the shortage caused a lot of people to lose interest because they couldn't get one, also a lot of the board improvements have pretty complex benefits so they open up new possibilities but don't really have a killer app yet. I think the power requirements have pushed it out of the range for a lot of projects though.
It's so hard to tell if they're heading towards a sweet spot or off a cliff with that one, I think the rest of their line is much stronger, zero 2 and the 3a+ or whatever it's called are Ideal little boards
The RPi was always very overpriced. I think they knew they were selling a lifestyle product from day 1, you know, "here's the new toy for the tech crowd that has too much money anyway". Sometimes I cannot believe what ridiculous sums of cash people give out for SoCs with custom cases that are definitely not worth the pay-up, ex. the whole clockworkOS computers which got abandoned by the manufacturer few months going forward, and the massive financial hurdle to become a part of the user community means the community/fan crowd just implodes as soon as the tech bros find a more shiny device to waste money on. Then all you got is abandoned hardware with no community support.
The pi at initial release before all the supply chain problems, and Pi's focus on corporate customers was $20.
There was nothing like it which is why it deserved the hype.
But now it's $75 and needs a custom USB c power supply. So it's pointless for most uses. As another pointed out, an N100 on the high end and esp32 on the low end make it a tiny niche.