That was my thought as well after seeing the list of Free APC bugs. I can see why they'd want to limit the number of bugs that you can get free hardware for (to avoid trivial pull requests like fixing spelling mistakes etc.), but there should be a few bugs between the low hanging fruit and the ones you need the actual hardware for.
These look nice, but what makes them any better than a Raspberry PI?
I'm probably missing something, but it looks like it has the same inputs/outputs as a PI, but with only 720p output (as opposed to the 1920x1080 of a PI). The form factor looks to be larger and the PCB looks a lot more complicated. And it's $30 more expensive?
APC is also a type of colon cancer [1]. So fix a bug, get a free armored personnel carrier sounds a whole lot better than fix a bug, get free ass cancer.
Hell, how do they compare to a $35 RaspberryPi? Not very favorably, in my opinion.
They both have the same amount of RAM, and pretty similar CPUs, but at least the Pi can output video at 1080p. The APC maxes out at 720p.
Also, for a computer supposedly built with "awareness that the purpose of a computer is to connect to the Internet", I find the lack of built-in WiFi surprising.
I bought a couple of the original APC 8750s when they came out. "Meh." Fiddled with one, the other is still in the original box. My RPi units get a lot more use.
"Buy an APC, Fix Bugs in OS, Your second APC is free"