They certainly have an edge on ecosystem and software polish but it’s pretty slim.
I’ve got a mixed k8s cluster - half rasps half orange pi…and I’m having more issues on the rasp side.
I don't understand why customer support is so hard to get right for these Chinese companies. The pervasive mindset seems to be beating others on price is enough. For the maker market Pi's are aiming for, it really isn't.
Raspberry's moat largely comes to support and compatibility. They've fostered such an ecosystem around their SBCs that they're usually the safer choice if you want to build something with any expectation of long term stability.
Now that they're public, there's no guarantee that they'll maintain this commitment. They may feel pressure to sacrifice long term success for short term profitability. We'll have to see how this plays out.
“We offer one-stop customized service based on open source products to shorten the path from technology to application”
vs raspberrypi.org:
“Empowering young people to use computing technologies to shape the world”
The underlying tech is very similar but the marketing and community aims are very different. If RPi can capture a solid chunk of the education market they’ll be able to dine out on that, and it doesn’t seem like OPi is equipped to do the same.
They don't have TLS enabled. Doesn't exactly promise much on the software side of the board either.
Like nvidia.