jessemonroy650:
What will happen to Yun when the split is complete?
Doing a quick look this weekend, I found Yun is no longer available for purchase on arduino.cc.
However, the Yun, the Yun Mini, the Tian and something called UNO wireless are all available on arduino.org.
I'm torn about this whole situation. I hate taking sides, but I feel more sympathetic to the .cc side of the feud, as the attitude and actions of the .org side don't feel right. But on the other hand, looking at the product offerings, it seems like the .org side keeps coming out with newer and more interesting products, while the .cc side seems to be somewhat stagnant in comparison.
I bought my Yuns (four of them) shortly before the split. I liked them from the beginning, and I like them more with each project I work on - as I learn more and more about the system's capabilities, I like the platform even more. (I still use the Bridge library, but the more work I push down onto the Linux side, the more satisfied I am with the overall system performance and capability.) So I think the Yun is still a desirable platform. From a philosophical viewpoint, I have a hard time moving to a .org product, but from a technical side I guess it doesn't really make a difference? There seems to be some differences with the .org firmware (maybe that has something to do with the current topic?) but I don't know that it makes it better or worse - just different. And the Ciao library looks to be interesting on the surface, although I haven't looked at it closely.
The classic Yun still appears to be available on the .org site, at least for now. While the classic Yun is a great prototyping configuration, the Yun Mini seems very interesting for including into a finished project - one that you prototype with the classic configuration, and then build a custom board that uses the smaller form factor Yun Mini. My big reservation with the Yun Mini is that it doesn't include an SD card socket, and that's a show stopper for me - I'm not particularly interested in putting the required USB interface/driver chip and SD card socket on the board I design: it detracts from the appeal of the Yun Mini's smaller size. The Arduino Industrial 101 also looks interesting from a smallness point of view, but it again has the same limitation as the Yun Mini as far as the SD card goes.
So, at least for me, that makes the classic Yun the most logical platform, which means going to arduino.org. There is a new forum section here for a Yun Shield, and there are pages on this .cc site about it, so that might be an option for those wanting to stay with .cc. But I don't see it listed anywhere in the products or store pages of this site?
The Uno Wireless from .org sounds interesting. I've heard a lot of about the ESP8266 recently, and it could be an interesting combination. There are quite a few new products out there, like the ESP8266, which offer easy integration withe smartphone apps and similar infrastructure. I've been a little leery about them as many seem cloud based - their smartphone/IoT integration only works if you have an active Internet connection that allows communications to pass through their servers. I have a problem with that, I need something that doesn't require any outside connections. My reasons are varied: in some of my applications, I have no Internet access. And at home, my access is over an expensive Cellular connection - I don't have unlimited bandwidth (I'm out in the boonies - my only options are expensive semi-fast cellular, or expensive slow satellite: I don't even have dial-up as an option.) But my bigger concern with cloud based services is what happens when the company decides that they are not going to support it any longer - the project just turned into a useless brick. But a recent project I've read about states that the ESP8266 does not need an Internet connection to integrate with a smartphone app, so it might be worth a try. Although I think the Yun will still be more powerful and flexible with the full Linux processor. (One of these days I've got to look more deeply into PhoneGap that you keep mentioning, but I'm not really interested in writing a full phone application.)