<story><title>E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters</title><url>https://abolish.social/@_/110828271798284741</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samtho</author><text>This would be hilariously satirical if it were not true and it highlights much of what is wrong with tech.&lt;p&gt;A benture capital subsidized micro mobility startup pulls out of a major city ostensibly because threshold for potential profit has been crossed and they’ve determined they cannot adjust their pricing to get the right numbers on their spreadsheet (note: this likely part of the reason why so many of these companies have trouble converting people to yearly plans, why bother if your market can be dropped with such swift indifference?). After pulling out of the market they leave their trash, that were assets a few days previous, scattered amongst the city as technological blight strewn across the landscape, left to rust. When opportunists go to crack them open, they find a raspberry pi, an SBC created for educational and hobby purposes but has been infamously out of stock because larger companies want to vacuum them all up to use in their own products. Then you wonder where all the engineering cost for these scooters went. After the presumably thousands of hours of labor that went into designing this, they went with a consumer grade, off the shelf product for an application that would have required a fraction of the power it was capable of? Not to mention that Spin can be identified as one of offenders of why the raspberry pi is so goddamn hard to find.&lt;p&gt;This all makes me irrationally irritated.</text></comment>
<story><title>E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters</title><url>https://abolish.social/@_/110828271798284741</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nyanpasu64</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m still upset that Raspberry Pi was focused on ensuring institutional customers (like these electric scooters) could order thousands of Pis, while leaving hobbyists trying to order single-digit quantities scrambling through years-long waiting lists and listings which get snapped up in seconds (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-_aL9V0JsQQ&amp;amp;t=564s&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=-_aL9V0JsQQ&amp;amp;t=564s&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>