I agree to some extent, and I'm worried about the war on general purpose computing too, but in the case of the Pi it's mitigated by the fact that the hardware s

I agree to some extent, and I'm worried about the war on general purpose computing too, but in the case of the Pi it's mitigated by the fact that the hardware starts at $5. That's a fraction of the cost of, say, a PC in the '90s.