Yeah, the use-case for rPi's is not just to 'function as a hackers toy', but also serve as the basis - a platform - for a great deal many other industry standar

Yeah, the use-case for rPi's is not just to 'function as a hackers toy', but also serve as the basis - a platform - for a great deal many other industry standard applications. The Compute Module is rapidly becoming an embedded commodity - a SOM that is easy to source, has decent tooling, and for which there is an expanding source of developers... Sure, there are other SOM/SOC vendors out there - but few have as resilient a distribution as the raspberryPi foundation. But it turns out, its a pretty decent little computer for a lot of things: Just make your own breakout box.