Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User)

Upton's comments are unfair just because the Raspberry Pi is newer and, stop the presses, hardware tends to drop in price over time. The Pandaboard that I'm familiar with has far more ports and peripheral chipsets than the R.P. The development of the R.P. was subsidized by both the British government and the Qt Foundation, while T.I. paid for Pandaboard development out of pocket. T.I. has huge numbers of staff engineers on IRC and mailing lists and wikis patiently answering the same Beagleboard and Pandaboard questions over and over. We'll see how good support for R.P. is.

I strongly suspect that contrary to "making piles of money" on these products that T.I. has actively subsidized them, but I am not party to inside information.