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Harry Fairhead, however, suggests that more emphasis should be put on improving the educational software available on existing hardware, using tools such as [[Google App Inventor]] to return programming to schools, rather than adding new hardware choices.<ref name="Raspberry Pi or Programming">{{cite news | url=http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/3419-raspberry-pi-or-programming.html | title=Raspberry Pi or Programming – What shall we teach the children? | work=I Programmer | date=2 December 2011 | accessdate=7 February 2012 | author=Fairhead, Harry}}</ref> Simon Rockman, writing in a [[ZDNet]] blog, was of the opinion that teens will have "better things to do", despite what happened in the 1980s.<ref name="zdnet mid-life crisis">{{cite web | url=http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/fuss-free-phones-simon-rockman-10024919/is-raspberry-pi-a-mid-life-crisis-10025449/ | title=Is raspberry pi a mid-life crisis? | publisher=[[ZDNet]] | date=21 February 2012 | accessdate=24 February 2012 | author=Rockman, Simon | quote=Just because young teens led the way in computing in the 1980s doesn’t mean it should, will or can happen again. Those outside the tech age bubble have better things to do.}}</ref>
Some open source projects criticized the lack of available hardware documentation (the FAQ on the Raspberry Pi website states that Broadcom does not release a full datasheet for the BCM2835), which would have made porting other operating systems to the Raspberry Pi easier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2012/07/04/msg001363.html|title=Raspberry Pi Hardware Donation}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=132788027403910&w=2|title=looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30895346|title=Re: [Freetel-codec2] RaspberryPI as dumb modem}}</ref>
In October 2012 the Raspberry Pi won T3's "Innovation of the Year" award,<ref>{{cite web|title=Raspberry Pi - Innovation of the Year|url=http://awards.t3.com/categories/innovation-of-the-year/raspberry-pi|publisher=T3 Gadget Awards|accessdate=9 October 2012}}</ref>
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