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Vlogger Jeff Geerling has an analysis of rumors of a future IPO for Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd.
But long-term, will Eben's vision for what makes Raspberry Pi change? Will there be turnover and some of the people who make the Pi a joy to use be gone?
Will the software side start leaning on subscriptions to increase revenues to make shareholders happy?
And ultimately, could Eben be replaced, and would that change things? Yes, probably, but I won't speculating about any that here. See my blog post about enshittification from last month if you wanna read more about that topic.
What I will do is answer some misconceptions I've seen about Raspberry Pi and the IPO.
The Register covered the IPO discussion the other day and while bankers have been appointed to the task, the CEO asserts that nothing will change.
"The business is in a much better place than it was last time we looked at it. We partly stopped because the markets got bad. And we partly stopped because our business became unpredictable."
"Unpredictable" is an understatement for many who attempted to acquire certain models of the computer during the supply chain crunches of recent years. "The public markets value predictability as much as they value performance," said Upton.
Previously:
(2023) Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi
(2023) Eben Upton Interview on Raspberry Pi Availability Update and Painful Decisions
(2023) Raspberry Pi Produced 10 Million RP2040s in 2021, More Pi Stores Likely
(2022) 10 Years of Raspberry Pi: the $25 Computer Has Come a Long Way
(2021) Raspberry Pi Raises Price for First Time, Reintroduces 1 GB Model for $35
... and many more.
(Score: 2) by namefags_are_jerks on Friday February 02 2024, @01:15AM (2 children)
I'm thinking the RPi (and the 'Maker Movement') has peaked a few years ago now.. While the mainstays are still around, the influx of new companies (and SM influencers/wannabe-YTpros pushing the products..) has about dried up. Even "STEM" branded products are disappearing from the electronics stores here.
Their future business looks totally MBA-crapification like was said -- stuff like the Pico, which was trying to use the RPi bandwagon into the STM32/Atmega-dominated space, but /really/ flew above most purchaser's heads to personally get down with. No Impoverished Teenage Nerd would really want one.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday February 02 2024, @02:11AM
You're name is ironic, jerk.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 02 2024, @01:27PM
If what most Impoverished Teenage Nerds want is a desktop computer, they should just get a refurbished x86 office PC, any display they can find, and call it a day.
If they want to become a Maker™, they'll use that PC to access ebay and AliExpress.
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