“Raspberry Pi Ltd, a leader in low-cost, high-performance computing, announces that it is considering an initial public offering (the “IPO” or the “Offer”) and that it intends to publish today a registration document (the “Registration Document”). The Company is considering applying for admission of its ordinary shares to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the FCA and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”).”
There’s been talk of this for a while. Sadly it means that things like quality, price, leaps in innovation, things remaining useable across different models, will inevitably get worse as they start to pursue profit over everything else.