Raspberry Pi vs. The World: compare and contrast the competition

26 Jul 2013

Round One - Fight!

Mockery is the greatest form of flattery. Raspberry Pi hit the world by storm. Immediately, the industry responded. Since Raspberry Pi was introduced, many usurpers have tried to dethrone the board with little luck. Like Kleenex or Xerox, Raspberry Pi is the defacto description of small form factor computers. Every new board mentions Raspberry Pi somewhere in its literature; a mantra being “we are better than.” However, are any of the alternatives better? Let’s take a look.

This chart is put together under some criteria. The board must have some sort of video out built in or designed for it. The board must have come into existence since the release of the Raspberry Pi. In addition, I picked boards that either suggest directly, or third party referencing, it as a replacement for a Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi vs The World: a comparison between the top contenders. (See attached files for large resolution images of the list... all images via their respective companies)

The BeagleBone Black, UDOO, and Parallella seem like strong contenders in ousting the Raspberry Pi from its global domination. But, all these boards lack one critical success factor, a huge and fervent community. Raspberry Pi prevalence is so large, that numerous companies have sprung up just developing accessories for the board. And they are all paying salaries because of it. Just see this list of Raspberry Pi Accessories that put the little board back on top of the stack.

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Attachments:

Raspberry Pi contender list.txt.zip
	Raspberry Pi vs The World 1 PDF 2.pdf

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fustini over 12 years ago

It might not be as large in sheer numbers, but the 100% Open Source Hardware BeagleBoard & BeagleBone has a strong community (http://beagleboard.org/) that has been around for 5 years as of this past Monday!

http://beagleboard.org/blog/2013-07-29-Five-years-of-DIY-hacks/
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morgaine over 12 years ago in reply to fustini

Very interesting, I hadn't realized that Beagleboard.org has been around that long. And even more interesting, from the link you gave:

From: http://beagleboard.org/blog/2013-07-29-Five-years-of-DIY-hacks/

BeagleBoard.org launched with support of Digi-Key in 2008 and DIYers quickly adopted BeagleBoard for migrating XBMC to ARM ...

So, the repurposing of prototyping ARM boards as media centres has long preceded Pi !!!!

This reminds me of a point I made in one of the Pi+BBB threads about companies and their products leapfrogging each other continually (I gave similar examples for Yamaha vs Denon and for Nikon vs Canon). The fact that BBB has very strongly leapfrogged over Pi for virtually all applications except media centres is not anything particularly new --- Pi had previously leapfrogged over BeagleBoard for media use and on price. This leapfrogging can be expected again and again and again, so any one party being in the lead is a short-term situation. This makes fanboism a pretty silly thing to engage in. Far more fruitful is to celebrate the best product at any given time!
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fustini over 12 years ago in reply to morgaine

hooray for leapfrogging!
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fustini over 12 years ago in reply to morgaine

hooray for leapfrogging!
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