[tedivm]

They're claiming that they've killed themselves as a business hobbyists, which isn't exactly wrong. During their supply chain issues they made it clear they were prioritizing their commercial customers over the hobbyist market.

At this point the hobbyist community has moved on to other things (shout out to odroids). I don't think raspberry pi is going anywhere, but they do have a very different market and customer base than they did five years ago.

Also as a company their social media people really are assholes, which doesn't help at all.

[teamonkey]

> During their supply chain issues they made it clear they were prioritizing their commercial customers over the hobbyist market.

Which is 100% the correct thing to do. They said they were especially prioritising smaller companies that relied on Raspberry Pis, where otherwise those companies would collapse or need to lay people off, and also kept some aside for educational establishments.

Sorry to say this, but your home assistant plant waterer robot dog feeder is less important, especially since hobbyists can just go to another product much easier than a small business can.

[LeafItAlone]

> At this point the hobbyist community has moved on to other things (shout out to odroids). I don't think raspberry pi is going anywhere, but they do have a very different market and customer base than they did five years ago.

FWIW the communities I participate in are still RPI focused and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone using an odroid.

> Also as a company their social media people really are assholes, which doesn't help at all.

This is something I’m somehow unaware of (I avoid general social media); what do you mean?

[nfriedly]

FWIW, the odroid forums have some assholes that will come out of the woodwork if you even mention a competing product. I reported one, and the mods told me that the forum was only for odroid products, so they weren't going to take any action.

[justin66]

> At this point the hobbyist community has moved on to other things (shout out to odroids).

Some small fraction of one percent of "the hobbyist community" has done as you've suggested. You're in some kind of odroid bubble.

[KaiserPro]

Yeahnah, I'm not moving to odroid, its a lot of faff and terrible support.

I have a N100, and some rp2040s for GPIO.

I have a project coming up that needs to drive a small screen, the raspberry pi is totally the platform I'm going for. There is no comparison for hardware and software options.

[Dah00n]

So what did all those people that couldn't get a RPI do? Stop doing stuff or did they move on? I'm pretty sure the other brands saw a big uptick in sales but if you know otherwise please do share as I have no numbers to back anything up.

[justin66]

It's true that the last few years have been rough for new users, but if they were already "doing stuff" with a Pi, why would they need to stop?

> I'm pretty sure the other brands saw a big uptick in sales

They probably had massive upticks in sales, which for them might have been quite significant but relative to the total Pi user base, not at all.

[renewiltord]

Are there any odroid-based PiKVM-like devices? The PiKVM device is really well built and the software is good. Easiest thing for me to LetsEncrypt too.