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This makes a lot of sense to me, and I think the biggest thing is this changes the conversation at a company level about which boards to buy. Generally, compani

This makes a lot of sense to me, and I think the biggest thing is this changes the conversation at a company level about which boards to buy. Generally, companies have a lot more resources to put towards supporting more niche commercial boards, like generating their own BSPs and Linux builds. They went with Pis because they are a) cheap and b) easier. If they are a) more expensive and b) easier, that would change the calculation potentially for a lot of companies.

aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> They went with Pis because they are a) cheap and b) easier. If they are a) more expensive and b) easier, that would change the calculation potentially for a lot of companies. I do believe there exist further points that make the Raspberry Pi boards attractive to companies (in opposite to SBC offers by many other companies): c) There exist a lot of people (potential empoloyees) who have already worked with a RPi (even if for private projects) and thus know RPi's insides rather well. d) The RPi boards (even very old ones) are supported by the manufacturer for a very long time with GNU/Linux support that (mostly) "simply works". e) The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a British company (in opposite to boards by Chinese producers) Potentially: f) The esteemed Raspberry Pi brand might also give some martketing prestige to an offering of a company that uses a RPi board as a central part ("Our product uses a Raspberry Pi").