[MrZongle2]

I think this is another example of how Raspberry Pi Foundation's decision not to move forward with a gazillion different boards, but rather to stick with A and B and let the software evolve, was a good one.

I'm very excited to see what the next year brings.

[dublinben]

Different development boards (like the Beaglebone Black) are already more open, but get much less attention. The Raspberry Pi has an enormous amount of mindshare, but they've been doing a pretty poor job until now of shifting the status quo of this industry.

[simcop2387]

Yea with this happening I think what I would love is a bit more cpu power on the pi. Not even the new 64bit arm cores or anything but an A-15 or A-9 at double the MHz of the existing PI would put it in a huge sweetspot for embedded performance and make it far more usable for a desktop (with ideally more ram too but that's always good).

[polshaw]

To be fair, the Pi opened the floodgates in terms of ARM boards; there are now loads of them.. not $25 but nothing like the insane pre-pi prices. The beaglebone black from TI is a good step up: 1Ghz A8 (~2x rPi performance), 1GB ram, $45. They don't really need to segment themselves (yet), as others can fill in the gaps.

[cbhl]

It sounds like you really want a TI Pandaboard or maybe even one of the Intel SoCs...