New hardware?

[MBTC]

But Apple and companies like them are not interested in creating open-standards, they are interested in highly proprietary devices and defending their design patents like pit bulls.

Its hard for me to understand your position from your message, it seems like it starts off that you'd rather Apple be the holder of a standard like CUDA but then later in the message it seems you're dissatisfied with Apple?

Anyway one of the things that helped Apple get back on their feet, aside from a major influx of money from Microsoft, was when Jobs was put back in charge and he trimmed their product portfolio down to focus on only a few things. In other words I doubt we're going to see them expand into music hardware.