The reason so many varieties of these Android sticks exist is the SOC manufacturers involved are often only supporting Android in their BSPs. How that came to b

The reason so many varieties of these Android sticks exist is the SOC manufacturers involved are often only supporting Android in their BSPs. How that came to be is a wildly interesting topic in itself, and one that isn't talked about much. Basically Freescale, Rockchip, Allwinner and a bunch more names I don't remember provide reference designs that boot Android out of the box. Of those names I believe only Freescale make any serious effort to support Linux directly at all.