Graph & timeline of Pi Sales

[CarlRJ]

Please tell my household finance director that. I think RPis are like bicycles. The number you need is always the number you've got right now plus one.

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, that part of the budget is blacked out for security reasons - it's strictly on a need-to-know basis - and I'm afraid you're not a member of the proper committees."
or,
"You know, I could be collecting cars or yachts or horses, or something else dreadfully expensive - these cost a pittance by comparison.

With the Zero especially being so crazily inexpensive, it really does make sense to keep one or two extra around "on spec", just in case a project pops up in the middle of the night. Only 5 of my 8 Pi's are on 24/7. Still toying with the idea of getting 4-8 Zeros and a hub, and making a cluster with which to, uh, conduct important experiments.

[liz]

We're not partying or making a particularly big fuss about it - but you can bet we'll be making a fuss when we hit 13m, which will mean Raspberry Pi will have outsold the Commodore 64, to become the biggest selling home computing platform outside the Mac and the PC. Already rubbing my hands together in anticipation.

[rpdom]

We're not partying or making a particularly big fuss about it - but you can bet we'll be making a fuss when we hit 13m.

I'll be ordering up some more, to help you reach that target, when I next get paid (Friday)

I've already got more Raspberries than I have ever had any other make/model of computer - even the BBC Model Bs, of which I had a fair collection.

[DougieLawson]

We're not partying or making a particularly big fuss about it - but you can bet we'll be making a fuss when we hit 13m, which will mean Raspberry Pi will have outsold the Commodore 64, to become the biggest selling home computing platform outside the Mac and the PC. Already rubbing my hands together in anticipation.

Summer barbeque it is then if we trust Hal's "math".

[gregeric]

Summer barbeque it is then if we trust Hal's "math".

If it stays linear, you won't be wearing your Hawaiian shirt to the barbie: end April I make it, but likely sooner than that if there's a continued upwards trend.

[W. H. Heydt]

We're not partying or making a particularly big fuss about it - but you can bet we'll be making a fuss when we hit 13m, which will mean Raspberry Pi will have outsold the Commodore 64, to become the biggest selling home computing platform outside the Mac and the PC. Already rubbing my hands together in anticipation.

At the present rate: Five months, so the end of April. Could be slower--holiday time off from the factories--or faster--as more and more people learn about Pis.

[RaTTuS]

faster - as the Japanese factory will make with more headroom

[gregeric]

At the present rate: Five months, so the end of April. Could be slower--holiday time off from the factories--or faster--as more and more people learn about Pis.

Factory shut-downs won't affect sales - there's enough buffer stock in the supply chain to cover that.

[jamesh]

Wow! When and where is the party? That's 999,999 other raspberries for each of mine.

If my math is right, you're going to have to buy 5 Pis per year to keep up.

Please tell my household finance director that. I think RPis are like bicycles. The number you need is always the number you've got right now plus one.

That's guitars, not bicycles.

[Jednorozec]

Please tell my household finance director that. I think RPis are like bicycles. The number you need is always the number you've got right now plus one.

That's guitars, not bicycles.

No, no, no, it's hard discs.

[gregeric]

An "official" plot of sales was part of the RS press conference during the recent RPF mission to Japan.

Plot extrapolated forwards to predict 20-22 million by September 2018

[gregeric]

Now that 12.5 million sales have been registered, there has appeared an official Pi chart (gerrit) of sales by model, published at https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-sales/

Figures for Zero interesting - knocking on for 500k Zeros, plus in excess of 100k ZeroW already.

[mikerr]

Interesting that QuadCore Pi ( pi2+3) now account for > 50% of total Pi's

Model A/A+ shows 5% of 12.5m ...so 600k
and as you say, 600k of Pi Zero

"Official" chart:

[mikerr]

Updated to 14 Million total sales as announced by Pete Lomas at the Manchester Raspberry Jam (can't see a link anywhere though)

[mikerr]

Some interesting stats from an interview with eben at betanews:

https://betanews.com/2017/07/19/raspber ... -upton-qa/

Model breakdown:

• Model B: 3 million units.
• Model B+: 2 million units.
• Model 2B: 3 million units.
• Model 3B: 5 million units.
• Others: 1-2 million units.

Now nearly 15 million total, with 10 million Raspberry Pi produced in the UK factory.

So a graph:

[BMS Doug]

Model breakdown:

• Model B: 3 million units.
• Model B+: 2 million units.
• Model 2B: 3 million units.
• Model 3B: 5 million units.
• Others: 1-2 million units.

Now nearly 15 million total, with 10 million Raspberry Pi produced in the UK factory.

Other includes the A, A+, zero and zero W, Am I right in thinking this doesn't include the compute module / CM3?

[RaTTuS]

https://twitter.com/element14/status/930803244632363008 farnell E14 has sold 10million units

[Gavinmc42]

Anniversary coming up.
20million sold by then?

Last time I heard it was 15Millon? whoops 18M in Jan 2018.
Must be very close $18.5M, 19m?
What was the current production rate?
How fast to sell the last 10M?

[Heater]

If the current exponential growth continues the entire planet will have been turned into Raspberry Pi by 2030.

[RaTTuS]

If the current exponential growth continues the entire planet will have been turned into Raspberry Pi by 2030.

universal Pi-per clips ? http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

[Heater]

Wow, I'm going into the paper clip business.

In ten minutes I collected a thousand dollars. Borrowing along the way. Then ran out of wire and went bankrupt. Assuming a good chunk of that thousand dollars was my salary I'd call that an excellent result.

Isn't that how startups work now a days ?



And don't forget the guy that wanted to buy a house. He had no money, only a paper clip. He got his house:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip

Remember son, you can't go wrong with paper clips.

[mikerr]

17M in December 2017:
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/12/22/ra ... spberrypi/

@Gavinmc42 were did you see 18M in Jan 2018 mentioned ? (though it sounds about right)

[Paul Webster]

Jamesh mention 18m a few weeks ago
Here is one example
viewtopic.php?t=201916&start=25#p1256416

[mikerr]

12 Million Pi made in UK

1 Million Pi Zero .. around 2 years from launch.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/happy-birthday-2018/

[mikerr]

New model 3B+ released
and now 19 Million Pi

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbe ... le-now-35/