Stop reposting this corporate press release. Fuck the Pi foundation, and frankly, fuck the tech “journalists” and YouTubers who shill and cover for their anti consumer backstabbing.
There were 40,000 PI4s a week produced during Covid, the shortage on the consumer websites was because the entire production was sent to industry users, and there was the barest dribble left over for the hobbyists that made them popular.
Every time there was an increase in production, it all went to shore up backlogs in industrial orders. Why an industry player would use an rPi instead of purpose-built PLCs is beyond me, but that’s what was happening.
The rPi foundation will drop hobbyists like a hot potato when the 5s start being specced for industry and we’ll be back to the same shit. Pretty sure that’s why they didn’t bother with H265 hardware licensing, because no industry player will need that.
TL;dr - They’re going to fuck you, find another source.
Stop reposting this corporate press release. Fuck the Pi foundation, and frankly, fuck the tech “journalists” and YouTubers who shill and cover for their anti consumer backstabbing.
Not familiar with their anti consumer backstabbing, could you share share some links please?
There were 40,000 PI4s a week produced during Covid, the shortage on the consumer websites was because the entire production was sent to industry users, and there was the barest dribble left over for the hobbyists that made them popular.
Every time there was an increase in production, it all went to shore up backlogs in industrial orders. Why an industry player would use an rPi instead of purpose-built PLCs is beyond me, but that’s what was happening.
The rPi foundation will drop hobbyists like a hot potato when the 5s start being specced for industry and we’ll be back to the same shit. Pretty sure that’s why they didn’t bother with H265 hardware licensing, because no industry player will need that.
TL;dr - They’re going to fuck you, find another source.
Here’s a link to the last comment I made when this press release masquerading as an article was posted a few of days ago:
https://lemmy.ca/comment/6374839