Raspberry Pi is not a platform for the retail product (such as iPhone), it is only a platform for prototyping by programmers/hobbyists who do not have any hardware knowledge. That means the end user is not the actual everyone person, and apps wrote for it still need a retail-friendly distribution form to reach the consumers. For just a little bit of hardware knowledge, the programmer can choose Arduino, NetArduino, or many of the NETMF offerings from GHI/Seed. These products are much closer to the eventual retail version, since they all have a full chain of companies prototyping/building/testing/assembling your products for you. And the cost is lower and flexibility is much higher. Vendor/platform lock in is low. I also do not think can evolve as quickly as the others mentioned above.
Raspberry PI looks to me like another iteration of the computing evolution. Just like the early days of the PC industry, where only hobbyists buy them for projects, this could be like that as well and eventually as an alternative to Windoze based system. Just my 2 cents, discussion welcome.
Nod. However, the different products may just be the results of different target user groups. Maybe a regular chinese buyer and a US buyer expect things differently?
【在 k******a 的大作中提到】 : Nod. : However, the different products may just be the results of different target : user groups. Maybe a regular chinese buyer and a US buyer expect things : differently?