As I understand it, the Schiit Pi will function as a general purpose compute device in their products, where they can perform DSP, Filter functions, or other compute heavy functions w/o using specialized processors, such as the Sharc processor, etc. They would write their own code that runs on the general purpose SPi for these functions, but it is not their intention to produce a SPi for direct use by users. They'll develop code to perform the compute tasks necessary for their stuff (ex. DSP functions for the Gadget music processor, etc), but will not be in the end-user OS / UI business as would be required for say a DAP or a Streamer. Now if they wanted to team-up with a SW developer that would sell and support an OS for an external device (I'd love to have a streamer enclosed in a Magni enclosure), or open it up for Open Source development, that's something else, but I don't see it happening, unfortunately.