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Raspberry Pi at the beginning, before the IPO: very affordable, compact SBCs with low power and lots of community support. Raspberry Pi after the IPO: Raspberr

by Netcob 2y ago

Raspberry Pi at the beginning, before the IPO: very affordable, compact SBCs with low power and lots of community support. Raspberry Pi after the IPO: Raspberry-colored tech products. Can't wait for the first "subscription" product.

spiderfarmer 2y ago
Another Open Source project succumbing to corporate creed.
- geerlingguy 2y ago
  The Pi itself was never open source hardware; most of the engineering staff (and Eben Upton himself) came over from Broadcom, which is not a company known for much friendliness towards OSS.
- dividuum 2y ago
  What a weird thing to say. The Pi is more open source than ever. Output is controlled by DRM/KMS. Video decoding uses FFmpeg and OpenGL is now via Mesa. All of that was closed source binaries two generations ago. Kernel changes are pushed upstream if possible too. Sure I can’t print my own board, but that was never the case or the goal.
dave78 2y ago
> Can't wait for the first "subscription" product. They've already hinted at it with Raspberry Pi Connect. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-connect/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-connect/
axegon_ 2y ago
Raspberry pi's haven't been all that affordable for a while now. At least not to the extent that I'd pick them over a second-hand usff PC, which will come with x86, which is more desirable(as opposed to arm) despite it's shortcomings and is stupid fast in comparison. At this point the only raspberry I can truly justify is the Zero 2 W. Mind you, I am considering a uConsole as a laptop replacement and I'm somewhat torn if I wanna give it a shot or not.
- ipdashc 2y ago
  The RP2040 and (upcoming?) RP2350 are also really nice. But yeah, the Raspberry Pis themselves are in a bit of a weird spot at the moment.
rakoo 2y ago
Raspberry Pi at the beginning: we want everyone to have one ! Raspberry Pi now: only geeks actually buy this
glimshe 2y ago
It will become like Polaroid. Expect batteries, cheap cameras and other disposable stuff. Raspberry Pi is being wrecked by the $100 computers now widely available through Amazon and eBay.

by Netcob 2y ago

spiderfarmer 2y ago

Another Open Source project succumbing to corporate creed.

geerlingguy 2y ago
The Pi itself was never open source hardware; most of the engineering staff (and Eben Upton himself) came over from Broadcom, which is not a company known for much friendliness towards OSS.
dividuum 2y ago
What a weird thing to say. The Pi is more open source than ever. Output is controlled by DRM/KMS. Video decoding uses FFmpeg and OpenGL is now via Mesa. All of that was closed source binaries two generations ago. Kernel changes are pushed upstream if possible too. Sure I can’t print my own board, but that was never the case or the goal.

dave78 2y ago

> Can't wait for the first "subscription" product. They've already hinted at it with Raspberry Pi Connect. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-connect/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-connect/

axegon_ 2y ago

Raspberry pi's haven't been all that affordable for a while now. At least not to the extent that I'd pick them over a second-hand usff PC, which will come with x86, which is more desirable(as opposed to arm) despite it's shortcomings and is stupid fast in comparison. At this point the only raspberry I can truly justify is the Zero 2 W. Mind you, I am considering a uConsole as a laptop replacement and I'm somewhat torn if I wanna give it a shot or not.

ipdashc 2y ago
The RP2040 and (upcoming?) RP2350 are also really nice. But yeah, the Raspberry Pis themselves are in a bit of a weird spot at the moment.

rakoo 2y ago

Raspberry Pi at the beginning: we want everyone to have one ! Raspberry Pi now: only geeks actually buy this

glimshe 2y ago

It will become like Polaroid. Expect batteries, cheap cameras and other disposable stuff. Raspberry Pi is being wrecked by the $100 computers now widely available through Amazon and eBay.