content: I get that, I just don't understand the market here. For instance, the rPi market has always revolved around being quick, simple, and cheap. Given this $40 CPU, and the $40 IO board to work with it, plus however much it would cost to build your own SO-DIMM PCB, it's no longer cheap. With the way you have to interface with it, it's no longer simple... especially compared to the other rPi platforms. And, when you're developing something, testing isn't quick at all, as this is more of an integrated solution.  It may be quicker to implement into the final product, but not until you get to that point. So, given that it violates all of the fundamental philosophies of the Raspberry Pi foundation, I have never been able to find a suitable reason to use any of these... especially when you had to buy them in a $3000 pack of 100.  If I was going to make something with embedded Linux, I'd just buy an SOC and be done with it.