artisticforge:
Arduino still has not hit the bottom yet. Many retail stores just no longer carry Arduino products. Radio Shack retail store are basically gone. The Mircocenter.com retail stores sell Arduino clones and knockoffs.
Frys.com retail stores are not much better. Most are either Grove or SeeedStudio. I do have one Robotale board which is a poor Chinese clone.
I have to totally disagree with you. Arduino.cc went through some growing pains a few years back but the community - represented by this forum - is strong. Yes, brick & mortar retail stores like Radio Shack, Fry's, and Sears are a dying breed, replaced by e-commerce sites and internet stores. That, my friend, is what progress must be.
Annual product models come and go, just like lady's fashions, but the interest in them thrives and the newer models such as the MKR1000 offer much more than the originals.
There's a great and marvelous future.