When will the be a NEW "When will the be a NEW Rpi?" thread?

[mung]

I was initially disappointed by buying the rpi2, mainly due to finding that maybe the same software optimization problems as with the original rpi were going to happen again.

After spending a few weeks tinkering I am now starting to think maybe the rpi2 is actually an excellent piece of kit and even without ARMv7 specific optimizations it kicks ass.

The only thing I am annoyed at now is all the work I put into getting things optimized and working on the original rpi is now obsoleted and wasted.

So I have a few questions for discussion.

1) Any chance the original rpi can be sold cheaper so old development work can be competetive against the new rpi2?
2) beagle seem to trail the rpi and try to beat it with a new release a year later, what do people think the new beagle will try to do to beat the rpi2? check these threads maybe? http://beagleboard.org/blog/2015-02-05-raspberry-pi-2/ http://hackaday.com/2015/02/05/benchmar ... erry-pi-2/
3) What is the foundation going to add to the mix for the rpi3?, what does everyone think is lacking from the rpi3?, I would like to see the next rpi trying to compete with beagle on gpio and adding dsp and shared memory IO processors (PRU) for real world processing and learning robotics/automation, I imagine that is the next big thing for engineering and computers.

Please don't say we need gigabit ethernet as we already have better ways to serve warez torrents don't we?.

[texy]

So many things wrong with this post. Let's just stop it now.