Difficulties of a hardware startup, compared to a software one, is mainly of storage, selling channels and after-sales services. The inability to iterate quick

Difficulties of a hardware startup, compared to a software one, is mainly of storage, selling channels and after-sales services. The inability to iterate quickly is also one of its problem. Unless someone come up with a solution for these problems, I don't see a renaissance of hardware in the form of many startups (but can be in other forms, since now Win 8 is encouraging hardware creativity)