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.
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.
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
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
Too high power draw and very expensive. 25watt is basically the same as a mini PC but with less performance and worse software compatibility.
The price with all the required “accessories” puts it around 90-110 bucks. Awfully close to the mini PC as well
Jeff Geerling recently made a video about it
https://youtu.be/jjzvh-bfV-E
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.
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.
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