(disclosure: I work at NVIDIA, but not directly on Shield.) One of the things that I find most exciting about Shield is that it's a platform designed for innov

(disclosure: I work at NVIDIA, but not directly on Shield.) One of the things that I find most exciting about Shield is that it's a platform designed for innovation. Build blobs, a manifest.xml, and recovery images were released on day 3 (they would have been released on day 1, but for an Akamaization mistake). [1] I'm not sure whether it will take off in the hands of developers, but the step of reaching out as soon as we could makes me proud. I certainly hope that people will come and develop on our platform, but more than anything else, I hope that this will make it closer to "the norm" for SoC vendors to provide support packages for their platforms. [1] https://developer.nvidia.com/develop4shield#OSR https://developer.nvidia.com/develop4shield#OSR ... or if you prefer the PR-speak, http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2013/08/07/hack-your-shield/ http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2013/08/07/hack-your-shield/