I meant to comment on this a few days ago. I find it ridiculous that Raspberry Pi’s are so hard to get…hence expensive. The main reason they became popular was their surprising low cost and size. That’s what attracted me to them. Now apparently people are willing to spend $150 and more for one. I bought mine because if I didn’t find it useful it wouldn’t be a big expense. However it was useful and cool. But in some ways people are now telling Raspberry Pi…you are so great I don’t care what you cost. I just want to brag that I have one as a status symbol. Their prices just makes me want to check out an alternative SBC. So it was with interest that I watched…
At first look the Orange Pi 3 at $48 on Amazon looks interesting. It’s a big upgrade over my Raspberry Pi Model B+ I bought in November 2014. Which only ran a 32bit OS.
At the moment I don’t really have a Pi project in mind. I probably had several in mind within the last year. But my mind tends to divert around things I find unacceptable. And knowing what the Pi started out to be. And the current prices. I’ve just mentally moved on to other things. I’m not going to send a message to Raspberry Pi that you’re so great that I don’t care what you cost. It seems that Raspberry Pi’s have become to the SBC what Mark Cuban has become to TV’s Sharktank. Where it has become obvious to me that many of these people are so interested in dealing with Mark that he could almost offer them a bag of poop and $5 and they would accept. “Oh Mark if it’s your poop I’ll accept the deal”. Why don’t they just rename the show to Marktank. You can see the disappointment in their faces if he passes on them. Oh no now I have to deal with these lesser multi millionaire’s.