- There are plenty of industrial applications that still make use of legacy comms protocols. Those people need laptops too. - There are 30 million Raspberry pi

- There are plenty of industrial applications that still make use of legacy comms protocols. Those people need laptops too. - There are 30 million Raspberry pi's sold worldwide and at least a quarter of a million Arduino boards, even more so if you add the clones and knock offs. There is a world of non-professional 'consumer grade' makers and hobbyist that would love to have a more diverse offering in consumer electronics. instead CES just feels more and more like the Auto trade shows where cars keep converging to more and more homogenous things and designers risk less and less, at some point you are just changing branding and not much else because all the components come from the same handful of suppliers. Corporations have stopped taking risks that much is apparent.