Does it feel like this was inevitable anyway? I had heard that the company was already focusing on OEMs and delivering their products to those companies first. Whereas in the early days the RPi company was positioning themselves as having an educational focus (and the hobbyists). I don't know how true this is, but is what I had read explaining the inability to get RPI4s and RPI5s over the past year.
It is quite sad though as they will now have an incentive to profit over 'provide', and it will be nice while it lasts.
> but is what I had read explaining the inability to get RPI4s and RPI5s over the past year.
RPi5 never really had a shortage; there was the couple of months of "preorder" during launch.
During the post-COVID extended Raspberry pi shortage, a big percentage of production went to keeping OEMs happy to avoid screwing customers that had designed in RPi products.
It is quite sad though as they will now have an incentive to profit over 'provide', and it will be nice while it lasts.