The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

Post by vageli » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

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Although this may work in general, it hurts the very purpose of the Pi. I have an open source project I've been working on for some time, it's based around the Pi Zero W, however, here in the UK it's practically impossible to get more than one Zero W unless you order individually from each site and pay shipping individually for each. Even then, you'll be paying at least £12+shipping per unit. It's wasteful and needle…

The purpose of the Pi is to get kids a computer they can play with. I struggle to see how your inability to buy lots of Pis disagrees with that.

Post by kingosticks » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

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Isn't the whole raspberry pi company set up as a foundation/charity? They probably take a loss on the store to promote the idea.

Right, but resources they spend running a loss-making store are resources they don't get to spend on other opportunities that might better advance their foundation's goal. Staffing a shop with skilled EEs could get expensive fast.

Post by classic959 » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

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See, being able to run "just Linux" is about the main selling point of RPi. It's no secret you can get boards with better performance/price or performance/power, or even build your own RPi at a lower price (not sure about zero). But RPi being just "plug and play" with familiar software platform means that I can just go and link my software skills with physical doohickeys.

Eh, my experience with the orange pi zero was similar. But then I've been playing with debian on embedded boards since the NSLU2 days, so I guess I'm probably a little blind to the challenges. Any build that doesn't start with a multimeter, a soldering iron and a TTL->USB cable is pretty straightforward...

Post by close04 » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

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Mea culpa. I was under the impression that every subsequent model is released at the same price point as the old one (similar to the normal RPi at $35). But this means the original Zero was marketed at $5 which was still never the case where I live (10-20E was/is the norm, maybe courtesy of the shortage). This being said I bought them either way. It just felt a bit disappointing when the expectations set by the promo…

Sounds like the reaction to all promotional advertising doesn't it? Cars are advertised the same, but with the advertised versions price is like 0.7 of what they have actual version you'd want to buy because they overcharge for accessories. They might be making a loss on the 5$ version to make it up on more powerful boards sold later on and therefore using the entire device as an ad campaign.

Post by sangd » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 3:12 PM UTC