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That's such a a shame. It was a cool product with a decent community around it. Now the enshittification begins and they'll be squeezing for every pound they ca
by ClassyJacket 2y ago
That's such a a shame. It was a cool product with a decent community around it. Now the enshittification begins and they'll be squeezing for every pound they can get. RIP Raspberry Pi.
- LeoPanthera 2y ago> enshittification Can you elaborate on what you think will happen? It seems difficult to screw up the idea of "selling small computers".
- solarkraft 2y agoOh, not to me. Capital finds its ways. Maybe not now, but certainly in the future.
- ThunderSizzle 2y agoThey'll figure out a way to make a subscription service for it.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoPress 1 for the latest security updates with Raspbian Pro. Only $5/month! Press 2 to be acquired by private equity, layoff 95% of employees, and pause future development. Press 3 to release a $3999 RPi server cluster of 16 nodes with AI and cloud features that can be enabled by subscription features. Press 4 for RPi 6 to cost only $499. Hurry, supplies are limited and the waiting list is filling up fast! Press 5 to change the licensing to proprietary for some components. Press 6 to remove the GPIO header.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoYes, they'll make like Arduino and launch the Raspberry Pi Cloud.
- causality0 2y agoIt's already happening. The Pi 5 came out four years after the Pi 4 and is between 50% and 250% faster, depending on the workload. However, it also has a base price almost twice as high as the Pi 4, moving from $35 to $60. It also consumes much more power, peaking at 12 watts compared to the Pi 4's 8 watts. The Zero 2 W is probably the last good product they'll ever release.
- samatman 2y agoI don't understand this compliant at all. The company still manufactures and sells the Pi 1, 3, and 4, in several variations. What did they take away from the world by making a more powerful model which uses, uh, 12 entire watts? 50% more power, 50-250% more compute. Suits me.
- causality0 2y agoYou don't understand dissatisfaction at a computer company going four years with zero improvement in cost to performance ratio?
- ClassyJacket 2y agoSure. Some ideas: Prices will go up. They will split out basic features into 'premium' models. They will no longer sell cheaper models entirely. They will find some way to shoehorn a subscription service since that's what every investor wants now. RPI Os will be littered with 'partnerships' and they'll find a way to make it difficult or unpleasant to use anything else to avoid them. They'll rush to do yearly releases instead of focusing on quality and support. I wouldn't be surprised if they break their guarantee to keep manufacturing products until a certain date.
- gosub100 2y agoIntentionally gimp it: if you want M2, that will be $100 more, 4K is version-locked but you can buy the unlock code for only $49. It default ships with an OS that contains ads, but you can "unlock" that too, for only $60, but hurry this is a one-time price, it's sure to go back up to $100 any day now. Gee, for some reason (after the security update), there's this "bug" where SD card speeds cap out at a max of 12Mbps (USB 2.0) , the engineers are working on a fix, but in the mean time you can get around it because the rPi-branded SD cards are running at the full 3.0 speed, better be safe than sorry.
- askvictor 2y agoRaspberry Pi is good not because it has superior or cheaper hardware, but because it has a community and support. If I have a problem with an RPi (hardware or software) it's _so_ much easier to work out how to fix it than some random chinese SBC. The enshittification will probably happen around the community; either intentionally (e.g. paid subscription to the forums) or unintentionally (bad decisions mean people leave the community)