04-14-2016, 11:21 PM
(04-11-2016, 02:44 PM)alid Wrote: I have bought 4 PI 3's and I am happy with them. I agree lack of 1G networking and being limited to 1G memory is putting a cap on what you can do with Pi. But great community and solid Linux support, makes up for it and then some.
I also didn't like this $7 shipping charges. it reminded me of 90's late night TV commercials with shipping and handling charges of nearly half the price of the goods themselves. This is not really a $15 computer. And if consider that not only you have to pay extra for BT and WiFi, you have to pay extra for shipping them even though they ship with the board,.. this all leaves a bad taste in your mouth even if you know what you are paying for. You feel your intelligence is being insulted and you have no choice but to take it.
Add to this what I call "lack of transparency", "emails whining about customers who whine", "quality issues", and then I find myself dealing with a company/team that I would never deal with again. I must also say that I am more disappointed in people on this forum that defend them and looking for sympathy because what some crazy guy did.
I already cancelled the two Pine 64 units I ordered after the pledge period ended and more likely than not, I will try to sell the two that I bought as part of the pledge (if/when I get them) provided I can get somebody to pay $8 for shipping for $40 worth of goods in this day and age.
I am in total agreement with this. Somebody in charge of a company shouldn't go on a rant about the way some customers act or what they do. He shouldn't whine about how stressful running a company is or whatever. The fanboys on this forums are the select few who have boards that actually run and boot into a running OS (not to mention un-bent boards). I had high hopes for this board but when you consider we never get good news in the KS updates, only one person who is employed by Pine64 runs the forums (not counting the overzealous fanboys)....I ultimately have boiled it down to this---Pine64 extremely over promised in their Kickstarter about what they could create and produce. This has led to them predictably under-delivering said products (literally and figuratively). I have sent an email to their "support" cancelling this order and would rather give it another company who can actually deliver products with better customer service...open source or not.
