Last Updated on February 2, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Who buys shares of Raspberry Pi Inc.? Eventually leepspvideo. But how many can he afford to buy? And who else is interested in those shares?
Jeff Geerling bought 25 Raspberry Pis by himself and never received one from Raspberry Pi for free. We are happy to know about this. He never took a sponsorship from Raspberry Pi either. One of his trips was payed by Sony, so was his video a paid promotional video? Whe are happy that Jeff Geerling publishes these facts. Is Rob ter Horst as transparent as Jeff Geerling?
Is Eben Upton going to leave Raspberry Pi if his company goes to the stock market? If we look at his picture on linkedin, you can almost no longer see him there on the picture:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebenupton/?originalSubdomain=uk
If Raspberry Pi would be controlled completely by the stock market, would this mean that even Jeff Geerling would turn more towards SBCs like the Orange Pi 5?
- For instance Orange Pi cannot compete with Raspberry pi as far as community and software support is concerned.
- But Orange did not have the problems Raspberry Pi had with hardware shortage in recent years.
- And do these problems of Raspberry Pi not cause a big insecurity among Pi for private as well as industry users? Insecurity as far as the future of Raspberry Pi is concerned?
- And who invests his time for development in a product such as Raspberry Pi for his future projects?
- A product which caused so negative experiences for their users in the past?
There is still no Raspberry Pi killer there, the Orange Pi 5 is not such a killer, but an alternative if Raspberry Pi for private users would be killed by the stock market.
We suggest therefore not to invest too much time in a specific platform such as Raspberry Pi if possible, our projects should be platfrom independent. If Raspberry Pi goes to the stock market – what will happen? If this will happen, then we suppose that this will happen:
If Rasperry Pi goes to the stock market, is the company restructured by the stocks? We cannot compete with Jeff Geerling as Raspberry Pi experts concerning this topic. He is on YouTube since 17.06.2006 and comments about Raspberry Pi. So we suggest to watch his video and listen to his comments:
But still Peter Gamma is an independent consultant with no conflict of interest:
And we haven’t found such a statement ind Jeff Geerling’s videos.
Jeff Geerling says he does not think that Raspberry Pi Inc. goes bankrupt. But will prices of the Pi’s be controlled by the stock market? And if so, will we have soon a situation as during the Corona, and as a consequence the Pi 5 will cost 200 – 300 USD?
And if Raspberry Pi for private users is not interesting for the stock market, what will happen? Will it dissappear and only be available for industry users? The same as happened to Dreem 2. Would Swiss bankers not do this immediately? Since what is more harmful to a company than that costumers cannot trust in a company and what they do? If would happen what we suppose the Swiss would do, we had a Orange Pi 5 for private users and a Raspberry Pi 5 for industry. But what do we have now? Two single board computers which both cannot convince neither industry nor private users?