Native development on ARM instead of cross-compling, for example. When you reach a certain point down the stack, the machine you develop for/on matters a lot more.
Gotcha
Whatever developers want to use it for. It has storage, highspeed networking, 16-cores all in a 32W TDP. We are excited to see what uses the community and our customers come up with for it.
Could you use it as a desktop computer?
Absolutely. The HoneyComb is targeted as a developer workstation / desktop. The ClearFog CX LX2K is the higher end board aimed at networking and edge compute applications. We are collaborating with most the major distributions making sure we will have the board fully supported as soon as possible.