Raspberry Pi becomes a public company

Well, so much for that I guess

A moment of silence for the company that once connected hobbyists with affordable hardware. It was never perfect, but the profound impact on makers and industry is undeniable.

I will remember you for what you once were, not what you came to be.

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Garbage. They started this in order to provide very poor people the means to program and create things.

It was a fun run.

I hope someone else comes up with a similar product soon.

2024 is going to be the year of the Linux Desktop enshittification. When anything you love goes public, you won't be loving it for much longer.

Begun, the Clone Wars have.

Eh, the only thing that made RPi better than the alternatives was the size of the community and the amount of testing done for their hardware.

RIP.

Looking forward to whatever SBCs the community migrates to in the next year or so.

Remember today when you reflect on what was stolen from us.

Friendship ended with raspberry pi Now Pine 64 is my new best friend

So that settles it. I have to get one now before they enshittify the new models.

The end of a beautiful era - hats off for all the folks who made the pi what it is, the folks who will now be forced to make us sorrowful for what it will become.

I'm glad they came out as what they already were.

It was clear that they did not feel as a non-profit foundation for many years now.

This hurts.

Goodnight, sweet prince.

F

Time comes for us all.

They've already gone downhill since 2020 when they couldn't keep up with the demand and focused on B2B sales. This really isn't a surprise to me

That explains the Pi 5 pricing. They started the enshittification early.

Ew.

Shit. I guess my or anyone else's loyalty hasn't mattered. I've bought two competing products during the drought and now we are going to have maximum suckage from them since the investors will be driving the bus now. How long before they intentionally hold back functionality and hide it behind some bullshit subscription?

So on an unrelated note, what's the best alternative available right now?

Well, shit.

pis have gotten less exciting over the years.

for those who are purely using the compute side of the pi is not as interesting anymore due to the flood of both 3rd party options, as well as used dirt cheap micro pcs (e.g Optiplex 9020 micros, 7040 micros, thinkcentre 710q)

and for those who program , they have to split based on usecase. for pure robotics and less compute, there isnt much of a reason to use a pi over an arduino. for IoT, using ESP32 are more useful for device to device communication, so pis sat in this weird spot where you needed it for basic compute (e.g. some object detection) or you needed the community behind pi. but since pis are being bought out by corpo, doong hobby work on a pi is too expensive nowadays. to me, pis died after their pricing tiers for memory not really being great (2019)

Booooooooooo!!!!! Boo I say!

I SAY BOO!!!

Gotta buy a share just so I can write angry shareholder letters

Loved the Pi for hosting small services around the house. I've just replaced my Pi4 with a N100, 16GB, 512GB SSD mini pc which is so much faster, not to mention cheaper than a Pi5.

Guess I should stock up while I can huh?

I’ve been a RPI fan since the beginning and have used their boards for all sorts of projects and tinkering. But it’s hard not to feel like it’s losing sight of what made it attractive in the first place: low power and low priced computing. It had its charm in buying a Pi Zero and just chucking emulators on it and handing them out to folks who might want to have a go.

But with the more expensive, more powerful hardware you just can’t really use them for things like that anymore. Just too expensive and too much oomph for the use case.

We’ll see if the company finds its way. But this usually isn’t a good sign…

RIP

So much for them remaining cheap...

It was some kind of non-profit previously right? What happens with the money paid for the shares they floated?

Well I guess the lack of availability that never let me get into pi's the last few years was a good thing. R.I.P.

Whats events point of going public? Arent they making profit? Or what does it even do for then now?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Introduced in 2014, the Pi gained the familiar 40-pin GPIO header and 512MB of RAM, yet it can hardly be called a ball of fire when compared to more modern hardware from the company.

Pi supremo Eben Upton was delighted with how things have gone so far and said in a statement: "The reaction that we have received is a reflection of the world-class team that we have assembled and the strength of the loyal community with whom we have grown.

"Welcoming new shareholders alongside our existing ones brings with it a great responsibility, and one that we accept willingly, as we continue on our mission to make high-performance, low-cost computing accessible to everyone."

Some users have expressed mixed feelings about the IPO, noting that the money would be helpful for R&D and new projects, however, the flotation underlines the fact that the company is a business.

As for the future, Upton told The Register earlier this year that while he remains at the helm of the organization, it would continue to do interesting work and try to keep making money.

The Reg hopes this is the case, but think it's fair to say that pleasing both the corporation's customers and shareholders might end up being more challenging than obtaining a Raspberry Pi 5 at launch.

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I'm guessing this means new pi versions soon.

Now I'm glad I didn't get plugged in to their ecosystem.

Well, what we need is some dedicated non-profit company making chips.

Lame

The 3B was a far superior alternative to the NES Classic I couldn't get at the time (and taught me what little I know about Linux - I even got a lesson in sudo one time when a command wouldn't work). o7

e_e

Oh shit I missed one of these again.

Public? Like, owned by a state? Isn't that good?