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Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the yay dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Raspberry Pi has sold 10 million units -- continuing its success as the most popular British computer ever. The computer, about the same size as a credit card, was first released in 2012 and is widely used as an educational tool for programming. However, it can also be used for many practical purposes such as streaming music to several devices in a house. A new starter kit for Raspberry Pi, including a keyboard and mouse, has been released to celebrate the success. The kit also includes an SD storage card, official case, power supply, HDMI cable, mouse, keyboard and guidebook -- it costs $130 and will be available in the coming weeks. The Pi, which is manufactured in Wales, has been adopted by pupils, programmers and inventors around the world.

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  1. What does this have to do with Windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

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  2. Re:I got a Pi 3 recently. by Kinwolf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you'll have to explain what you mean by "properly"

  3. Re:I got a Pi 3 recently. by chispito · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they've got the USB working properly now then it's awesome. If they don't then it's useless to me. Have they got the USB working properly now?

    It is what it is. I'm trying to think of the very limited set of applications you must have in mind that it would be "useless" when there are so many successful projects people use them for.

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  4. Target market by rijrunner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The interesting thing here is that people are complaining about how the Raspberry Pi operates when used by people who were not its primary customer when it was designed.

    When it launched, it was launched, it was done as a teaching system and it has been aimed more at replacing the arduino than PC's, where this is very cost competitive given its vastly greater capabilities.

    That is does not have all the functionality of a desktop is not surprising. That is not what it was designed for. But, the low cost is really causing people to think about the system and deploy it in very surprising ways. (We are using them at my place of business in our NOC for all our monitoring systems where more powerful systems are just overkill.)