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It blows my mind how shitty Raspberry PI foundation are to their community: - They prioritized industry over community, and made it almost impossible for hobby

It blows my mind how shitty Raspberry PI foundation are to their community: - They prioritized industry over community, and made it almost impossible for hobbyists to get any meaningful hardware for so long. - They allowed retailers like Pimoroni price gouge Raspberry PI's by forcing everyone to buy really expensive bundles of needles cables, power adapters, officially licensed toothbrushes, and other nonsense - And then, after all that drama, they release a new edition of the flagship product and make community members have buyers remorse over waiting so long and paying $400 for a Raspi Pi 4 2GB + officially licensed socks bundle. (The prices of Raspi Pi 4's in some countries was/is really shocking and sad.)

schappim 3y ago
> It blows my mind how shitty Raspberry PI foundation are to their community: You are conflating Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd and Raspberry Pi Foundation. The foundation is hardware agnostic, and even create content for 3rd party micros such as the micro:bit [1]. > prioritized industry over community, and made it almost impossible for hobbyists to get any meaningful hardware for so long The company went through an existential crisis during the silicon shortage / pandemic. They had to make very hard decisions. The "prioritized industry" was mostly constrained to older hardware w/ larger process node sizes (Raspberry Pi 3), and compute module. [1] https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-microbit https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started...