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> The target market for the Raspberry Pi foundation is education. I'd bet 80% of the sales are to hobbyists/companies. It's a weird setup. Have a look at this
by tpmx 6y ago
> The target market for the Raspberry Pi foundation is education.
I'd bet 80% of the sales are to hobbyists/companies.
It's a weird setup. Have a look at this page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/meet-the-team/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/meet-the-team/
There are two groups of people:
* Raspberry Pi Foundation (100+)
* Raspberry Pi Trading (27)
My understanding: The people in "Raspberry Pi Trading" do the hardware/software/documentation/product management/sales work, plus publish the monthly MagPi magazine. That's remarkably few people for this, btw. The profit of this operation goes to support the foundation, per the wikipedia page. There sure seems to be a lot of fluff there.
I think it would be wise to change that balance (100+ vs 27 full times) a little bit more in advantage of Raspberry Pi Trading part.
- worik 6y agoAn interesting thing about that "meet the teem" page is the diversity. Most Linuxish projects are a pale sausage fest!
- tpmx 6y agoI guess that's why they put the Raspberry Pi Foundation people first, then.
- PragmaticPulp 6y ago> I'd bet 80% of the sales are to hobbyists/companies. Hobbyists are part of the educational target. Raspberry Pi has introduced more people to embedded Linux than any other project. We didn’t always live in an era of cheap SBCs. Before Raspberry Pi, the barriers to entry were much higher and much more expensive. As much as people like to criticize the Pi for not having every possible feature or not being completely open source at every level, it doesn’t actually matter for 99% of projects. It gets the job done cheaply, quickly, and with a huge support community behind it. The Raspberry Pi CM4 is now available for anyone who needs more granular access to IO or extra features like eMMC.
- tpmx 6y agoIt seems like you didn't reply to I wrote, but rather to what you imagined I could have written. Or you're just pontificating in general.