Re:Pine64 Unveils Quartz64 SBC
by PragmaticPulp on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:22PM
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> I'd bet 80% of the sales are to hobbyists/companies.
Hobbyists are part of the educational target. Raspberry Pi has introduced more people to embedded Linux than any other project.
We didn’t always live in an era of cheap SBCs. Before Raspberry Pi, the barriers to entry were much higher and much more expensive.
As much as people like to criticize the Pi for not having every possible feature or not being completely open source at every level, it doesn’t actually matter for 99% of projects. It gets the job done cheaply, quickly, and with a huge support community behind it.
The Raspberry Pi CM4 is now available for anyone who needs more granular access to IO or extra features like eMMC.
Hobbyists are part of the educational target. Raspberry Pi has introduced more people to embedded Linux than any other project.
We didn’t always live in an era of cheap SBCs. Before Raspberry Pi, the barriers to entry were much higher and much more expensive.
As much as people like to criticize the Pi for not having every possible feature or not being completely open source at every level, it doesn’t actually matter for 99% of projects. It gets the job done cheaply, quickly, and with a huge support community behind it.
The Raspberry Pi CM4 is now available for anyone who needs more granular access to IO or extra features like eMMC.