[morganvachon]

> RPi adopted these things later and, funnily enough, needed to increase their price when they did so.

This is my only nitpick with your post. While the Pi was in development, yes it was advertised as a "$25 computer", and once they finalized the design of the B version it ended up at $35. However, its price has not increased one penny since release, despite several revisions and huge leaps in performance and capability. Today we have the RPi 3, a quad core 64 bit computer that sells for the same price as the original single core, outdated-on-release board from 2012. If anything, that means the price has technically gone down, since you're getting so much more for the same amount.