if broadcom were supplying at below cost as a marketing expenditure it would explain a bunch of things such as why raspberry pi doesn't allow bulk sales but would give them away with magazines
It doesn't, but the foundation does make a loss on the zero as far as I remember (remember reading somewhere..) which is why they never lifted the "one per order" restriction. It's very annoying because I give trainings sometimes and it would be nice to give each participant one.
That's being unfair to him, there is tremendous local market for millionaire homeowners that still want to think of themselves as socialist revolutionaries as long as the value of their home never ever drops, and he is merely filling that demand
I've always wanted a way to extract just the kick drums in realtime but I don't understand this field well enough to understand whether it would be remotely possible or not.
You want just the beat, ie the time markers of each kick? Or you want the isolated sound (ie audio) of each kick?
Both are generally possible today, though the approach will differ a little bit.