Huge hype then huge wait times have that effect. I know with Guild Wars 2, I was hyped beyond belief... two years ago. I then played the betas this spring/summer and thought "yeah, this is cool. I guess."

Extreme hype wears off quick, and needs to be capitalized upon immediately. I can already feel the same thing happening with the Microsoft Surface.

I do know that if I could have bought 10 RPis in March, I would have. Last week I paid for my preorder of one and feel thats probably enough.

Thanks for taking the risk to share your detailed anecdotal agreement with the OP, even though apparently someone felt it was worth downvoting.

I feel similar to you. The bungled launch and difficult distributer made my interest evaporate.

Maybe they are easier to get if you live in the UK or Commonwealth.

Soon there will be full Linux support for ARM and we will see lots of SoC boards.

I have exactly the same feeling. I wanted to order at least 2 RPi during the launch (one for me and one for my wife), but now, I didn't even care when Farnell and the other distributor contacted me that they can send it to me as soon as I pay. BTW. I always thought that the published price is with taxes already and now I see that I have to pay 23% VAT on top of the $35 device (+ shipping, but that's obvious). So it's a real pain. Here in Europe prices shown are most of the time with taxes included (not counting the huge distributors selling only to companies)