The author's points are valid. However, there's no recognition of the tremendous marketing, documentation, training, community & ecosystem surrounding the platform.<p>These things are real, they are as real as any code that's written. They are as real as any hardware.<p>So yes, the Raspberry Pi is a great, fantastic introduction into this IOT world. The security problems are real, that should be the first thing attended to.<p>And then yes, once you get the basics down it should be easy to move to a better platform/device/doohicky.