Innovation

As I said above Raspberry Pi has remained the same piece of hardware from the early days. However in today’s times it in order to stay in the market you have to continue to innovate. It really doesn’t matter what you are doing today, what really matters is what plans do you have for tomorrow. Will you stay relevant tomorrow?

“In the short to medium term its all about the software, its about trying to make the platform the existing platform better. We have said we are going to do a version which has better power performance, we are going to do a board revision in medium term – sometime next year which improved the power consumption of the device but apart from that we are not very focused on hardware; we are focused in tuning up the software stack as I said there are a lot of low hanging fruits available to people we are very keen to hunt that down,” said Upton.

The hardware of Pi is not changing not due to lack of innovation but because of other very valid reasons.

“We could chase off after a more powerful hardware platform but what we would be doing is orphaning who already bought a Pi we know some point in the future, 2-3 years from now we need to ship new hardware. If we are shipping the current hardware in 2017 that’s going to be a disaster for us but we want to make sure that we can get as much life as we can from it.”

we want to make sure that we can get as much life as we can from it.

It’s quite clear after this interview that Raspberry Pi is planning to increase presence in BRIC countries – India, South America and Africa. So that’s good news from users of this regions. Brazil needs to reconsider its tariffs to empower its children by getting easy access to such hardware. Raspberry is committed to it’s users and unlike iPhone or Nexus doesn’t have planned obsolescence of its devices. They want users to get as much life as they can from this extremely cheap device – so if you are investing in Pi, it’s going to last longer. However, at the same time they are investing resources on improving the Pi experience.

The way Raspberry Pi complements and values its community is something other companies can learn a lot from. Many companies start off with using community work and as they grow powerful and popular start to marginalize such community members and users. Instead of enabling such users in doing what they want to with the very project they help succeed these companies start dictating them what to do – my way or the highway. Raspberry Pi is a good example of a great balance between goals of an organization and what the community wants. To an extent, from the conversation, it appears that the foundation makes extra efforts to understand what the community wants and then help them in doing it.

Raspberry Pi has become a revolution in its own right and it’s going to get bigger and bigger.

Do you own a Pi? If not get on today!