SBCs for people who want to be prepared to the bankruptcy of Raspberry Pi Inc. – Orange Pi 5 & Mango Pi Quad

Last Updated on January 13, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Who know when the Raspberry Pi game is over?

Who decides whether Raspberry Pi Inc. goes bancrupt tomorrow or not?

Therefore is it not better to be prepaired for it? Next to NextCloudPi on the Orange Pi 5:

NextCloudPi on Orange Pi 5
byu/thanh_tan inOrangePI

Home Assistant can also run on the Orange Pi 5:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/orange-pi-5-with-home-assistant/498585

https://gist.github.com/renatoccosta/c30f0b4216c8caaf1f202b0a0561b5d3

So if Raspberry Pi Inc. goes bancrupt tomorrow we have got an alternative SBC to run NextCloudPi and Home Assistant on it. And assuming that Raspberry Pi Inc. goes bancrupt tomorrow would these distributions not be much better, soon?

And which soft- and hardware developer want to develop for a platform such as Raspberry Pi where we risk that the company cannot deliver for years during the next Corona, or even goes bancrupt?

So is it not better for developers to choose the Orange Pi 5 or the Mango Pi Quad as their developement platform instead of the Raspberry Pi, platforms which where resistant to the Corona break-out?

If a company like Raspberry Pi Inc. treads developers like they treated those during Corona, namely not deliver those devices for development and giving talks on YouTube without hardly saying anything, will Raspberry Pi Inc. not do this again during the next crisis until Raspberry Pi Inc. is dead?