I am sure unit gross profit per SBC and CM rising year-on-year from $4.1, to $6.2, to $8.6 will be viewed positively by those seeking to profit from share ownership. I'm not convinced it's so positive for consumers of those products.
I have never been a fan of capitalism, and even less so publicly traded shares, don't see that anything good comes from either, detest greed and avarice, so my perspective is rather biased.
ditto
Covid boosted commercial sales and I think the consumer side has suffered. Pi5 launched far too early and lessons from the Pi4 launch weren't learnt, documentation is difficult to use and often missing important basics (how many thousands of users have bought a jmicron usb-sata).
The after-sales support is weird, they give minimum support dates but then admit that if they can't be bothered supporting some of the software then they will simply delete it. Something that is going backward in functionality is the opposite of being supported imho.
As you have indicated many times, the RPL defence of "we only have a small engineering department" when they are making tens of millions of pounds of profit is an insult to end users who are waiting for fixes - or does that indicate that suitably experienced staff are simply not available?.
The IPO could lead to a number of key staff moving on if they capitalise on their virtual shares, of course none of them are going to lay their cards on the table now and quite often its the last person you expect that jumps ship.
Statistics: Posted by pidd — Wed May 15, 2024 10:01 pm