I really hope this guy is wrong, because, like him, I have a bunch of project ideas kicking around that would be too frivolous for the time/money cost of an Arduino and some shields, or a Beagleboard/Gumstix/etc. When the price of doing something drops a zero, things change.
I mean, a hundred bucks and hours getting a rickety webserver stack to run is a huge investment for "controlling some LED mood lighting in my living room with my phone/pad/computer". But ~$30-40 for a Pi and a wifi dongle? That's still a little frivolous but whipping up a bit of C and PHP on top of Apache seems utterly trivial.
I mean, a hundred bucks and hours getting a rickety webserver stack to run is a huge investment for "controlling some LED mood lighting in my living room with my phone/pad/computer". But ~$30-40 for a Pi and a wifi dongle? That's still a little frivolous but whipping up a bit of C and PHP on top of Apache seems utterly trivial.
I want a handful of Pis SO BAD.