https://www.geeksmint.com/future-of-raspberry-pi-after-ten-million-sales/ GeeksMint: Computers, How-to's, Internet, Tips and Tricks Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:32:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.geeksmint.com/future-of-raspberry-pi-after-ten-million-sales/#comment-3260 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:32:16 +0000 https://www.geeksmint.com/?p=1650#comment-3260 I don’t predict a bright future; according to the Raspberry P i group, the Raspberry had sold in excess of fifteen million units, more than one year ago.
The RPi Group has a long history of playing fast and loose with such insignificant items as specs, design flaws, problems, Gigabit-ethernet-which-isn’t (“Gigabit Ethernet” is a DIRECT QUOTE from the RPi people to ALL news outlets, to describe their crippled 300 MHz Ethernet upgrade to their latest product); heat problems which exist for everyone-else-but-them…
The RPi organization can churn out ‘grandstand’ after ‘grandstand’ (a Power-over-Ethernet add-on, for a cheap computer-trainer for 8-year-olds? Give me a break!), but refuses to fix THE problem which has existed since the very first day of the introduction of the very first Raspberry Pi: the fact that the Raspberry Pi has NO way to be turned off with a simple “on-off” switch.
Perhaps this NEGATIVE fifty-percent SWITCH in sales numbers is the Raspberry Pi Trading Group’s concession to the lack of simply designing a simple on-off switch.
Sorry, Raspberry Pi–your puffery is old, and really worn out.

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