The implication being that they simply don’t need to be competitive on price anymore. Though I don’t believe the Pi is a particular outlier in price, you’re probably just paying for it to be designed in Cambridge and manufactured in Pencoed.
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The Pi needs those a dedicated community because there are subtle differences from mainstream Linux. The biggest advantage of Pi is the interfaces it exposes but it's the high end Pi market that I personally don't see use for these days.
I’m not sure that’s true. There are differences, yes, and differences of requirements, but the sheer wealth of focussed, single target support material and tutorials transcends that. Though true most of that stuff exists because it’s not generalisable, or is but it’s a pain to generalise.
Yeah the gap has closed a lot and if you don’t need GPIO and know what you’re doing the Pi is a hard sell. I’d mostly just pick up a microcontroller now, they’re so silly powerful.
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