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Raspberry Pi Production Heats Up In UK Surpassing Chinese Production Soon

Posted by samzenpus on from the cranking-them-out dept.

hypnosec writes "The majority of $35 Raspberry Pi production was shifted to a factory in Wales from China and the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced this week that the factory in Wales has produced its half millionth unit in just over six months. The weekly production has shot up to 40,000 units in the UK factory and that number is 'set to climb further.' The Foundation is optimistic about the Welsh factory and said there will be 'more Made in the U.K. Pis in the world than their Made in China cousins.' The Foundation didn't reveal anything else apart from this, but we already know it sold the millionth Pi back in January."

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  1. You are just joking, right? by csumpi · · Score: 0, Troll

    "No hard push advertising required!"

    So you don't get the at least once a week slashvertisement, the front page el reg articles, and raspberry pi coming from just about every faucet on the internet?

    It was not only advertised, but falsely advertised all over the place. An educational tool. All you need is a keyboard, monitor, power supply. Run scratch, learn programming. It's for the good of our children.

    What they didn't tell you was that the USB doesn't work with most of keyboards and mice (I tried about 10 keyboards on mine, some worked better than the other, but none perfectly). They didn't tell you that scratch. while it opens, it's so slow that it's unusable. In fact running an Xorg environment on it is so slow, the only way to use it is as a terminal. Remote terminal because keyboards don't work. Oh, wait. Forgot that the ethernet port drops out all the time also. All well known and documented design issues.

    Then the "botched" launch. Or so we thought. Where "the servers went down" and "sold out in minutes". It was all a ploy. Like the "product leaks" and those lines around the Apple stores (well, to Apple's credit, at least their hardware works.).

    Wonder how much of those broken million devices are actually used instead of gathering dust. While the "foundation" is shamelessly laughing all the way to the bank. For the good of our children. The scam of our lifetime.