The big pain in such an endeavor is the high cost of an hardware company and the low quantity and the long time it will take to build an ecosystem around such a

The big pain in such an endeavor is the high cost of an hardware company and the low quantity and the long time it will take to build an ecosystem around such an offering. I'd buy one or a few but beyond the tinkerers there aren't going to be many buyers. Unless someone of the Google/Facebook clubs will decide it is in their best interest to have such a thing and to enable it to be sold to others as well it is not that likely to happen.