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That's just bollocks - but people like you can only see it from that one perspective.technodup":29gu7x4r said:FFS it's not all about spivs in Savile Row suits working out ways to cream every last penny from the gullible public. The motivation is irrelevant, Pi saw a need, created a product to fulfil it, priced it as cheap as chips and PR'd the hell out of it. If you don't see that as marketing then you genuinely don't understand the term.Neil":29gu7x4r said:That's just spin.FluffyChicken":29gu7x4r said:I said nothing about consultants.
Raspberry PI found a market for something to help kids learn to programming, and adults alike. It moved into wider areas. From the onset they where looking to market it.
The motivation for people at the outset was to encourage the younger generation to get back to past times where there was more innovative software development. That's an altruistic ethos, not a commercial one.
More utter rubbish.technodup":29gu7x4r said:OpenSource, charities, even foodbanks- they all understand marketing better than you. They might not realise it, or be able to describe the steps in 'consultant' language, or recite case studies to you but they're doing it all the same.
I did it just to give you something to post about, sunshine.unkleGsif":33lfqkii said:Jeez Neil, you get going right from the crack of dawn don't you #insertsmileyfacefortheavoidanceofconfusionbytheeasilyconfusedandargumentative
That's very interesting. Any other anecdotes to share?unkleGsif":33lfqkii said:Ive been at work nearly an hour, and up since 5, and wont be anywhete near as raving as you until tea-break at 10.30
Why, right there - that's marketing.legrandefromage":149k1kmj said:I think I just shat myself after letting it go a bit too much.
videojetman":2dsi4v10 said: