And you see some of what you're talking about in closed systems too, where the system integrator can control both sides. The Wii, and PlayStations since the PS

And you see some of what you're talking about in closed systems too, where the system integrator can control both sides. The Wii, and PlayStations since the PS3 have had system control processors that can perform downloads, updates, and general system maintenance on a low power processors even while the majority of the system is off. In the Wii that processor was also responsible for the majority of the network stack even when accessed from the main processor. On the PS4 that processor even ran a relatively complete FreeBSD. Democratizing these techniques would be killer.