This is not the point of the raspberry pi. It is to provide a very cheap computer for developing countries so that they can access online ressources and education. What alternative do you see?

Haha, that's a good one. The market for Pis is the industry since long time ago.

This is not the point of the raspberry pi. It is to provide a very cheap computer for companies so that they can access more money.

Phones fill this niche in the third world.

Phones are pure consumption devices. You can't make apps for phones on phones.

> The object of the charity is to further the advancement of education of adults and children, particularly in the field of Computers, Computer Science and related subjects

That is the purpose of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the registered charity in the UK.

I'm not sure how that fits with having so many non-educational customers.

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/chari...

I personally still use them for 3D printers, and Raspberry Pis still provide good performance for the price if you can get them at MSRP. At that 40$ price range the main alternative is going to be an Allwinner H616 board like the BTT Pi or the Orange Pi Zero 2. I have actually run into a performance issue on one of my 3D printers that necessitated swapping a Pi 3 for a Pi 4, so performance did matter, and I'm unsure if a H616 would keep up.

I do have a few boards that are faster than a Pi 4, such as the Radxa Rock5 with the Rockchip RK3588, but they cost way more than a Raspberry Pi (once again if you can find at MSRP).

The pi was always slow.

Its point is that its it costs less than $20 to have a working linux machine with GPIO. Not only that, it has all the documentation to allow most people to get from 0-flashing lights.

It was and is an educational platform.

the same with the rp-2040. Its a cheap, lowish power device that easy to program, has great documentation and is versatile.

If you're trying to run docker on it in production, then you have the wrong platform.

It's "can't even run a web browser and nothing else" slow.

The Pico is a completely different system and use case.