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Raspberry Pi launches its IPO (www.raspberrypi.com)
submitted 5 months ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 195 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And so begins "Line must go up" and the inevitable enshittification .

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 59 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That began in 2020 for them.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

It's how you get to the IPO .. so yeah

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ootl-- what happened in 2020?

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

During covid they essentially stopped selling to people and only sold to corporations with big orders which caused ridiculous scalping whenever a measly batch dropped for consumers. It wasn't until around the end of last year that people were able to buy them at regular prices again.