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[–] WindowsEnjoyer 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why business would buy raspberries? I am out of the loop.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There are good business use cases for Pi's, you can search online to learn more if you want.

That's not the issue. The Raspberry Pi Foundation stopped supplying retail resellers and shipped 99% of ALL of their inventory to business customers for the past several years. Which is why you can't find consistent stock, and why scalpers are mysteriously the only ones able to have reliable inventory.

It's not a secret, you can look up any number of news stories covering it. Originally they could blame the chip shortage, but long after that's over, they're still diverting almost everything they manufacture to business channels, and screwing over the hobbyists who built their brand.

Screw them. I'm not supporting them with my money ever again, and I have double digit amounts going back to the RPi2.

[–] WindowsEnjoyer 6 points 1 year ago

Lol. Maybe I should sell my inventory. Still have like 2 RPI zero, 3 RPI3B+, 2 RPI4 and one RPI400.. 😅 Their price is currently like 3-4x higher than I bought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's not even just built their brand, built the damn software, documentation, did a lot of the testing and put up with pis being a bit dodgy out of the box for a year every time a new model came out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, they’re really easy to work with and relatively affordable, so great for prototyping, and acceptable for production if a company wants to get stuff out the door without getting a proper custom built solution that would be better in the long run.

When spin (electric scooter app rental company) pulled out of Seattle, they didn’t pick up a lot of the scooters there. People started pulling them apart when it was deemed they were legally abandoned, and it turned out they were all running on raspberry pi’s as their brains.

Ultimately it’s save money on the development side since it allows companies to use less experienced or specialized employees. It’s obviously expensive in the long term since a custom built system that only does what you need it to would cost less

[–] WindowsEnjoyer 5 points 1 year ago

That's so cool! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I guess because it's a cheap way to do embedded computing? Idk.

[–] matlag 3 points 1 year ago

For example:

https://farm.bot/

There are others. Plenty of small/medium businesses just don't have the resources to develop small computers and the matching software stack. In that regards, the RPi is an appealing choice.