What would happen if Raspberry Pi would be completely controlled by the stock market tomorrow?

Last Updated on February 2, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

We are interested in single board computers, eventually as a lifetime journey as a platform for our projects. Therefore we studied these for several years. The most negative experience we made with LattePanda single board computers. And we suppose that these devices are controlled completely by a marketing software. We became interested in the LattePanda Delta, since Ubuntu can run on it, and we where looking for such a SBC computer. We gave positive feedback about the LattePanda Delta in our journal, as well as at Digitec Switzerland where the LattePanda Delta was sold.

We wrote also to Digitec that we are interested in this SBC and wanted to have information about when the product will be delivered. As a consequence, the LattePanda Delta was pulled from the online shop of Digitec Switzerland, where it previously was sold for 200 USD. And shortly after that, the LattePanda Delta came back to Digitec for 350 USD, which is 150 USD more than it was previously. We where upset by this procedure, and we are convinced that LattePanda is responsible for this, and not Digitec.

Digitec Switzerland has a great service and is our favorite shop which offers excellent services. We recently ordered a package to pick it up at Digitec. But in a miraculous way, as we went to the post office, the post officer gave us the product we ordered from Digitec. The post officer says this was not shipped by Swiss post but by the Digitec cargo, who left the packet in front of the post office. This is the quickest possible way to deliver a packet to us. We suppose there was a smart guy at the weel in the delivery car of Digitec who new us and new that fastest way to deliver a packet to our place. Is this not a great service of Digitec? This is Swiss excellence of a Swiss quality online shop who cares about every single of their costumers and every single packet.

But what we experienced with LattePanda was completely the opposite. LattePanda is a Chinese company. What happened to us is the following. As soon as we showed interest in the LattePanda Delta at Digitec Switzerland we had to pay 150 USD more for this device, only because whe showed intererest in it, and we are convinced that LattePanda is responsible for this. Digitec who cares about every single costumer, we cannot believe that this has been done by Digitec. We are convinced that this was the action of LattePanda.

At other shops than Digitec the LattePanda Delte was still 150 USD less for costumers, as well as if bought directly from LattePanda. The 150 USD increase seem to have been done at Digitec Switzerland specifically for us personally since we gave positive feedback for the LattePanda Delta at Digitec.

Which CEO of a company who has a long-term interest in a product whould to this and take responsibilty in it? Making stock market specuation with every single costumer and every single board computer to maximize profit from it and upset ever single costumer?

Is this what we have to expect from Raspberry Pi single board computers in the future as well if it would be controlled completely by the stock market tomorrow? We suppose so, we experiences similare procedurers with EEG products sold on Aliexpress which increased the prices specifially for us. And we suppose this as been done controlled by a marketing software. A marketing software which does not behave like a human, but like a machine without human values with the only goal to make as much money out of us as possible.