[freeopinion]

I guess that's true for a certain wealth target. If you consider the Pi as the sweet spot for price, have at it.

But https://pine64.com/product/pinecone-bl602-evaluation-board/ costs $4. It fits a different sweet spot for price, power consumption, etc. A drawer-full of 20 Pis could run me $2000. A drawer-full of Pinenuts would run me... well perhaps $2000 because I could fit 1000 of them in a drawer.

If I want to browse the web, PineTab probably beats Pi. And that's only considering a single vendor.

Not knocking Pi. If it works for you, that's fine with me.

[genmud]

That’s apples to oranges, more comparable would be a pi pico w, which is like $6, has better documentation, and is more likely to be available when you need one.

I have a bunch of pine devices, but if you think raspberry pi’s are difficult to come by, finding a pine device in stock over the last few years has been a challenge at least for me personally. Things have started to get much better though, it seems.

[klardotsh]

Not only are Pine hard to find stock of, but I've basically never heard of a well-built Pine64 product, and that's coming from someone with three of them. They're all buggy, flimsy, doorstops at this point. Whereas my biggest complaints about Pis are that (1) I broke a plastic case for one of mine while it was in a moving box, oops, (2) SD cards are a pain in the butt and fragile.

[abudabi123]

The smaller than a finger nail size ”user unfriendly SD card“ is replaceable with USB memory as boot device.