Please don't get me wrong here. I in no way think that they're going to be failures, no matter how it turns out. That they're come this far at all already makes them heroes in my book.

Of course they are free to make whatever they want for whomever they want. If they choose to make them from solid gold and sell them to schools for a nickel, good on them.

All I'm saying is that I think an embedded computer that cost so little but still runs the software and has the features of the larger computers that most everyone knows how to program is a bit of a revolutionary idea.

Theoretically, if the demand is present, someone will be willing to fill it, but this is not a product space that DLink or Netgear is likely to explore. It would be a shame if they do indeed reach the limits of their production, prioritize as you suggest, and then we are unable to find out this go around whether the demand was there for 1000 more than they made or 100,000 more.

Like Arduino, the closer they come to getting one into everyone's hands that can create with them, the more valuable they become to everyone.