And they don't need to be seen as competitors -- comparing and contrasting various design elements can help refine all the platforms. Also, to help understand the design decisions of each approach.

When I can afford to, I plan on buying other similar SOC boards. It's becoming the increasingly clear that the only way to really know the strengths and weaknesses of these new designs is to have a lot of people doing a lot of crazy things with them.

For my particular application, I can't use the RPI, because I'll need a few dozen units. That ain't gonna happen with RPI any time soon. I'd like to have a group of RPI users who also know similar platforms.