The main problem I have with the hardware isn't price (although value is an issue with a lot of this hardware), it's longevity. I don't expect any specific mode

The main problem I have with the hardware isn't price (although value is an issue with a lot of this hardware), it's longevity. I don't expect any specific model to last very long, but these things don't generally last long enough to get successors and build up any kind of ecosystem around them. As for the A1222, I think people are going to be disappointed by the performance (cf. PS3 Linux). As far as I know, e500 is in-order and only mildly superscalar. The P1022 is pretty much designed to run a compact low-power router/firewall or act as the offload engine on a NIC, not to be used as an application processor.