After 3 years, 5 million RASPBERRY PI were sold, the Raspberry Furniture became the largest computer manufacturer in the UK.
The Raspberry Part is a miniature computer with a cost of only $ 25, which is launched by the Raspberry PI Non-profit Foundation. It only has a matchbox size, with entry-level hardware, which can be equipped with open source Linux systems and browsers, text processing, and programming software. The original intention of the founder Eben Upton is to let British children learn to write procedures, because he feels that the UK lacks engineers.
It is expected that the product is popular in North America after launch in 2012. Extreme and creative workers have come up with many weighing usage. In addition to the website service server, a thin client, online role playing game, etc., can also be played with other devices, such as combined with Lego to create a supercomputer, cheap bilile display, etc.
In order to cater to growing user needs, the Raspberry Pis has just launched the upgraded version of PI 2 in early February this year. The processor speed is 6 times faster than Pi 1, and the memory is doubled. It can be equipped with Windows 10, and the price is still added. No price of $ 35. Microsoft also means a developer suite that will provide Windows 10 to the developers of Raspberry Pi. This may further reduce the threshold using the Raspberry Party, making it more popular.
Why can the Raspberry Part sell so good?
It is cheap enough on the basis of easy use.
By non-profit organization One Laptop Per Child price of $ 200 entry-level notebook, the hardware of the Raspberry Pivot is better, the price is more attractive, it is more likely to be favored by educational institutions and non-profit organizations.
Design is high enough.
Although it is a product for education, the initial 90% of users are personal developers, which is called "Captain". A small size, standard USB connection, compatible sensor equipment GPIO board, makes the Raspberry Piece good extension, can DIY's interesting products such as BrickPi robots. In other words, the Raspberry Part is not just a personal computer, but also a part of DIY new cool products.
Smartily with the power of the Great Pomantic Social, set off the trend of the Raspberry Pivot Culture.
What is easy to achieve a social goal? It is easy to promote, but the cheap and cool computer doesn't like it?
Eben Upton said that current education, industry, and creation users have roughly one-third.
Interestingly, Eben Upton set the target very modest, and it is expected that it will only sell 10,000 units throughout the life cycle. 5 million units are exciting - although the foundation is not profitable. Not only that, but also completed the original intention of Upton - changed the attitude of the British government to computer education - from September last year, all children in the UK must learn to write procedures. Even in China, China has also launched a cooperation with the educational institution.
It is still necessary to use the product to change the world dreams. What do you realize?
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