Raspberry Pi Trading Could Go Public This Spring

Going public means that a company is beholden to the whims of stockholders, and this is concerning, because instead of thinking in increments of making the best product, they have to think in quarterly numbers, and what is best for this quarter, damn the future.

This means not thinking of affordable devices. The beauty of Raspberry Pi hardware is that it is inexpensive. Yes, there are many other SBCs out there, but costing a lot more. Raspberry Pi manages to do a great job of adding features, cranking up speed... but keeping components from getting too hot, and not making things too expensive.

Without this inexpensive, well-supported medium, there isn't really much out there for ARM SBCs at this price range, especially at the Pi Zero or Zero W 2 range. It would be a true loss for the computing community were prices hiked exponentially and development only done on high-speed/high-heat CPUs.