Hello,
I saw this on Planet Debian today:
"Once more this is where, once again, the story turns bleak. We find a very pretty website but no obvious link to the software (hint scroll to the bottom and find the "support" wiki link) once you find the wiki you will eventually discover that the provided software is either an Android 5.1.1 image (which failed to start on my board) or relies on some random guy from the forums who has put together his own OS images using a hacked up Allwinner Board Support Package (BSP) kernel."
http://vincentsanders.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-pine-stays-green-in-winter- wisdom.html
I wonder what the licence compliance situation is with the vendor's own software. And some of the other experiences, particularly involving reliability, give a depressing sense of déjà vu to anyone with any moderate amount of experience with ambitious single-board computer efforts where the vendor shipped hardware without proper software support, arguably to get "bottoms on seats" and to drum up business.
The author also makes some pertinent remarks about form-factor proliferation which seems appropriate to mention here, too. :-)
Paul