[t-3]

The community has become a lot less important, as arm devices become more and more generic and supported. Nowadays you don't need any special distro or kernel to boot on most boards, so I can't see the brand name pulling them through if they don't maintain a price/capability edge.

[freedomben]

This has not been my experience. Straying from RPi has each time left me dependent on community forums and stuff just to get stuff working, and a couple of times has left me with a completely dead device and no ideas how to proceed

[geerlingguy]

You and me both :(