Available gear much improved now. What else is needed?

[jvrjenivs]

So some duplication of development effort is inevitable but that is not necessarily a bad thing as a wider range of variations and quality of products results. Also competition SHOULD result in better quality items available.

I fully agree with you on that, but that was not what was meant to say. I see that there is some growing amount of products under development, which means that when I do develop an item nowadays I've to wait longer for the next prototype than I had last year, as they've to work on more projects at the same time.