Hardware makers make this hard for themselves. Having expensive devkits and requiring NDA's for doing the most trivial things creates a dynamic where the only p

Hardware makers make this hard for themselves. Having expensive devkits and requiring NDA's for doing the most trivial things creates a dynamic where the only players able to jump through the monetary and bureaucratic hoops are large vendors. Those vendors are unable to deliver true innovation because they have so much vested in the status quo.