I have to say, somewhere industry must have dropped the ball if a small company whose focus isn't even consumers makes such an impact.
Where are the commercial offerings?
Maybe CHIP will take this space, but electronics industry has really neglected hobbyist electronics. Maybe there's a reason, e.g hostility to the idea of hobby electronics disrupting industry?
There is e.g. the Asus tinker board which is twice the price and out of stock. https://www.asus.com/uk/Single-board-Computer/TINKER-BOARD/
Not too bad for a product that was announced late January.
It's called a BeagleBone Black/Green. I can buy 1000 of those tomorrow off of Mouser. And I can go talk to TI to get a volume discount if I'm buying bunches.
The RPi is a neat toy good for one offs and the community is excellent. The $5 is cool marketing, but it's vapor when you go to fab it.
However, when I need to support something commercially, I need datasheets and customer reps. I get that for the Beaglebone while the situation for the RPi is laughable.
I can get a Raspberry Pi 2/3 for $35. That's a real price that reflects the Bill of Materials.
However, I still can't get a datasheet or support from Broadcom. That's a dealbreaker.
Feel free to use RPi's in your projects or for small volume. But if you need real volumes, use a Beaglebone Black/Green.
Still, if there were more commercial players, there wouldn't be such a frenzy around the few offerings..