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Is RS components trying to screw Raspberry pi?
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MK14:

--- Quote from: Veteran68 on December 07, 2022, 08:54:24 pm ---You can buy Pi cases with M.2 slots built in. I have this one and it works quite well. I'm a fan of the Argon series and had a non-M.2 version before this one.

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Thanks.  I've been very tempted buy them, but the big lack of (easy) Raspberry PI availability, stopped me from getting it.  I know, with big effort, I could eventually get PI(s).
eti:
RS have more of a clue, and vastly more experience in electronics than “the foundation”.

“The foundation” as they love to call themselves, are full of it. Check out their stinky attitude on their own forums. It has been discussed to death many times, notably on Element 14 forums. Their elitism and arrogance will be their downfall. It’s like an “Insiders club” on there - it’s all a big, very transparent front for ensuring Broadcom SoC are shifted, sold under the cuddly “bedroom coder” (cringe!) image, playing on nostalgia.

They’re run by academics. There’s an old phrase “educated idiots”; I think it’s a mixture of that and immature forum managers.

They won’t be missed, nor will their products. Far better exists and they’re not too big to sink.
Kasper:
Quote below from RPi in April 2022.  I wonder if RPi postpones orders to distributors when a business calls in to talk about their livelihood.


--- Quote from: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/production-and-supply-chain-update/ ---we’ve consistently been able to build around half a million of our single-board computers and Compute Module products each month
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Right now we feel the right thing to do is to prioritise commercial and industrial customers – the people who need Raspberry Pis to run their businesses – we’re acutely aware that people’s livelihoods are at stake. There is currently enough supply to meet the needs of those customers. (Read to the end if you’re in this position and are struggling.) Unfortunately this comes at the cost of constrained supply for individual customer, who might be looking to buy a small number for home projects or for prototyping

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james_s:

--- Quote from: Kasper on December 08, 2022, 06:33:47 am ---Quote below from RPi in April 2022.  I wonder if RPi postpones orders to distributors when a business calls in to talk about their livelihood.


--- Quote from: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/production-and-supply-chain-update/ ---we’ve consistently been able to build around half a million of our single-board computers and Compute Module products each month
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Right now we feel the right thing to do is to prioritise commercial and industrial customers – the people who need Raspberry Pis to run their businesses – we’re acutely aware that people’s livelihoods are at stake. There is currently enough supply to meet the needs of those customers. (Read to the end if you’re in this position and are struggling.) Unfortunately this comes at the cost of constrained supply for individual customer, who might be looking to buy a small number for home projects or for prototyping

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I find this quite annoying actually. They're prioritizing business customers over the hobbyists and educational market which are exactly what the RPi was intended for in the first place, the hobbyists in the open source community have done a lot of the work to make the software support as good as it is.
AndyBeez:
@eti The same kind of academics who brought to market the pointless BBC microbit.

Correct me if I am wrong... My understanding is Sony, who manufacture the Pi range in Wales/UK, supply exclusively to the RPi Foundation, RS and Farnell. Which means UK and EU (commercial volume) buyers cannot buy direct from the Sony factory; only through RS and Farnell who have an exclusive distribution deal with the RPi Foundation. So how much volume does one need to be regarded as a commercial customer? 1+ million units?

I also note the wide range of RPi products on AliExpress, shipping (in volume) from warehouses in China. That's made in the UK, shipped to China, finally sold back to the UK because China is the only source of UK made RPi's in the UK for customers who don't need 1+ million boards. Go figure?
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