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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: Raspberry-colored tech products.

Can't wait for the first "subscription" product.

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> 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/

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.

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.

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.

Raspberry Pi at the beginning: we want everyone to have one !

Raspberry Pi now: only geeks actually buy this

Another Open Source project succumbing to corporate creed.

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.

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.

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