It never made sense for Intel to enter this market to begin with. Opportunities that move the needle for a company like Intel come in sizes of 100s of millions

It never made sense for Intel to enter this market to begin with. Opportunities that move the needle for a company like Intel come in sizes of 100s of millions $ or more. The maker market is just not that big. "IoT" however is - from industrial to home automation and everything in between where sensors, controllers and networks get added to traditionally analog or un-networked technology. If you look at what Intel was selling, that's the market that Intel's products were actually geared toward. Look at the price, specs and form factor of the Edison. Now imagine that Intel was really trying to push into the IoT space, it is a good play considering they failed to break into mobile. These products were really competing against companies like Phytec, Variscite, Compulab, Toradex, Myir and Olimex who make ARM-based modules for embedded networked products. Why they pushed so hard to market to the maker community instead of commercial IoT is sort of beyond me. Marketing to makers helps gain mindshare and familiarity with your product (but x86 is already ubiquitous.) For comparison, I wonder how much Atmel's bottom line has been affected by Arduino, or RPi for Broadcom. Why Intel couldn't get their act together to make a well-supported compelling product for commercial IoT applications is baffling. That's where they really failed.