Same as the people on Reddit claiming that Raspberry Pi has killed itself as a business because it's constantly in such high demand that it's always sold out.
At this point the hobbyist community has moved on to other things (shout out to odroids). I don't think raspberry pi is going anywhere, but they do have a very different market and customer base than they did five years ago.
Also as a company their social media people really are assholes, which doesn't help at all.
Which is 100% the correct thing to do. They said they were especially prioritising smaller companies that relied on Raspberry Pis, where otherwise those companies would collapse or need to lay people off, and also kept some aside for educational establishments.
Sorry to say this, but your home assistant plant waterer robot dog feeder is less important, especially since hobbyists can just go to another product much easier than a small business can.
FWIW the communities I participate in are still RPI focused and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone using an odroid.
> Also as a company their social media people really are assholes, which doesn't help at all.
This is something I’m somehow unaware of (I avoid general social media); what do you mean?
Some small fraction of one percent of "the hobbyist community" has done as you've suggested. You're in some kind of odroid bubble.
I have a N100, and some rp2040s for GPIO.
I have a project coming up that needs to drive a small screen, the raspberry pi is totally the platform I'm going for. There is no comparison for hardware and software options.
> I'm pretty sure the other brands saw a big uptick in sales
They probably had massive upticks in sales, which for them might have been quite significant but relative to the total Pi user base, not at all.