While itโs good that they have been ramping up production, their attitude towards consumers during the shortage is something that some users wonโt forget, as well as them seemingly ignoring that they are an education charity.
At least the Pi CEO acknowledges this in the CES interview with Jeff Geerling, where he mentions that the company has been โburntโ from a customer perspective. While they do contribute a lot to mobile linux development (indirectly), I think most people here would probably prefer the company just focus on their original mission of getting an affordable, credit card sized computer into usersโ handsโฆ not scalpers and hardware developersโ warehouses.
Also, I personally donโt really want to support Broadcom seeing the horrible decisions theyโve been making recently - why would they buy VMWare, then proceed to drop ALL of their partners, and put a ton of their staff out of work??
VMware, because they are bringing sales in house to make more money. Cutting out the middle man.
Theyโre leaving anyone under F100 to twist in the wind, as the sysadmin forums are attesting. If you were going to continue to service SMB or larger, youโd have an inhouse division ready to go before you shut down the channel. That is precisely the opposite of whatโs happened.
The idea is to squeeze as much revenue from the largest 600 clients while they desperately attempt to move to a different virtualization platform: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/broadcom_strategy_vmware_customer_impact/
