The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by michaelt on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:41AM (#19133445)

The Raspberry Pi foundation outsource all their manufacturing, as is normal in the electronics industry.

In the absence of component shortages, they could up production of Zeros by 10x or more if they wanted to. And the Zero barely has any components, so a component shortage seems unlikely.

If there's such high market demand that the product constantly sells out when offered for the MSRP, why haven't they just told their manufacturer to make the next manufacturing run much larger?

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by pbhjpbhj on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:37AM (#19133952)

I think this is reasonably analogous:

My kids school has a "chocolate table", at their fair, you pay a pound and win chocolate, it sells out really quickly. Why don't they procure enough chocolate to meet the high demand?

Or, other are asking "why don't they price out the poor kids - there enough to seek only to the rich kids at a higher price?".

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by michaelt on Monday February 11, 2019 @03:50PM (#19138181)

School's not procuring more chocolate because they think too much chocolate is unhealthy, so it should be kept out of the hands of children.

AFAIK it's not the RPi foundation's policy that RPi are unhealthy or that they should be kept out of the hands of children.

So I don't understand what you're trying to say with your analogy?

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