For the price you can by a pretty competent n100 based mini PC which beats the hell out of the pi for a lot of tasks. Makers can get a cheaper solution via esp32 or clones… so what real market is there for it?
Pi isn’t dead but the IPO would be a hail mary for funding while they figure out how not to go bankrupt.
I think the shortage caused a lot of people to lose interest because they couldn’t get one, also a lot of the board improvements have pretty complex benefits so they open up new possibilities but don’t really have a killer app yet. I think the power requirements have pushed it out of the range for a lot of projects though.
It’s so hard to tell if they’re heading towards a sweet spot or off a cliff with that one, I think the rest of their line is much stronger, zero 2 and the 3a+ or whatever it’s called are Ideal little boards
Considering they retail for about what you can get a decent used mini PC for, one which would run circles around a Pi, I can certainly see why. At its current price, I would never consider a Pi.
Raspberry Pi 5 is the first model that had 0 hype online. It seems people have already started to move on.
Considering I could order an Orange Pi with 32gb of ram and still cant get a Rp5… yeah the king is dead.
A couple years of not being able to buy them anywhere close to MSRP did enough damage I guess. Plus it exposed people to some alternatives.
Plus the Pi5 sucks.
Can you elaborate why? I’m curious
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For the price you can by a pretty competent n100 based mini PC which beats the hell out of the pi for a lot of tasks. Makers can get a cheaper solution via esp32 or clones… so what real market is there for it?
Pi isn’t dead but the IPO would be a hail mary for funding while they figure out how not to go bankrupt.
Somehow became the “Apple” of the sbc world. At least the software is still open source.
I think the shortage caused a lot of people to lose interest because they couldn’t get one, also a lot of the board improvements have pretty complex benefits so they open up new possibilities but don’t really have a killer app yet. I think the power requirements have pushed it out of the range for a lot of projects though.
It’s so hard to tell if they’re heading towards a sweet spot or off a cliff with that one, I think the rest of their line is much stronger, zero 2 and the 3a+ or whatever it’s called are Ideal little boards
Considering they retail for about what you can get a decent used mini PC for, one which would run circles around a Pi, I can certainly see why. At its current price, I would never consider a Pi.