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Raspberry Pi was always intended to be an educational device. It doesn't have to be strictly the best performer.

It was always intended to be a way to whitewash Broadcom and "educate" as a gateway drug for promoting proprietary closed platforms.

It's not like their competitors are or were that much open. It's not rare in semiconductors that even the catalogues are under NDA.

Look at Arduino for contrast.

Those days have long passed and most of the money is made on the b2b/industrial side. But these days raspberry pis only have a mode in software compatibility and LTS and those are slowly dwindling away. I'd be hard pressed to buy a raspberry pi of any kind these days when RK35XX Devices are available and beat pis at almost every task.

I really hope the pi foundation gets their head out of their behinds and stars competing again.

Not every thing in life is about money or competing.

Yes that why you should buy the slower, worse version for more money. It's not about that. Or competing. It's about buying a brandname original Raspberry Pi^tm^(r) and not the cheaper faster alternative.

> RK35XX Devices are available and beat pis at almost every task.

teoretical performance, yes

practicality, no

availability, no

community, no

manufacturer support, no

expandability, no

etc etc

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