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You mean they aren't going to be successful with it. They don't understand it because it is basically a computer dressed up like a microcontroller. It requires them to learn Linux or a language that runs on it. It requires them to download magazines for the Pi, join a forum, and start over (learning).They are all lost on the basic hardware side of it because they don't have a basic toolkit consisting of a PC Board clamp, a soldering iron, wire cutters, a multimeter, a breadboard, etc. The C-64 users on this forum (if many of them ever were) have reached a privileged position where they feel they no longer have to be geeks, tinkerers, programmers or hackers which is what helps makes computers "cool".The Raspberry Pi is basically a hardware initiative for the homebrew computer movement which they don't want to be a part of.In all seriousness, I have spent a couple of years trying to learn microcontrollers and I've been thrown off of a teaching forum for saying that microcontrollers is not something that everyone can teach themselves because they are (1) too lazy and (2) too mean to help others. The reason why people don't learn microcontrollers is because there is an expense and it takes time to learn it. "What if I buy all this stuff and I can't learn it?" I learned the language Basic at home and then I took it in College. I also took Pascal and Assembly. I learned it and and had to re-learn it to be able to teach it.The Raspberry Pi has all the makings for a computer club or "the social" which Arduino is and you all are missing something fun and a learning opportunity.You have the Amiga userbase that is eventually going to die out unless you have some serious hardware initiatives to get people back into personal computers.
