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by stinos 4073 days ago
Erm, isn't LED Blinking like the Hello World of talking to digital outputs on any type of hardware? By your logic you can get rid of a lot of the rPi/ARM dev board/basically aything with GPIO/... samples all together, and no-one except people with experience would be able to get LEDs blinking. Which especialy in case of the rPi defeats it's purpose as a learning tool.
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You've misinterpreted my point.

Blinking LEDs is the Hello World of embedded systems. But if I have to develop all of the software myself that I want to run on the Pi, I'd rather just use Linux.

The only benefit I see about having Windows running on the Pi, is so actual Windows applications can be downloaded and run on it.

If that functionality exists, there should be a demo where you boot up the Pi, access the Windows store, and download/run a real application.