Every year I try to look at some of the chips shown at CES to help predict the future of our devices and technology. But this year other than two trends worth noting I had a tough time pinpointing anything specific or new. Part of my angst is because we’re seemingly at a point where our hardware is capable of doing so much that the focus has shifted to software and services. As I’m sure you’ve heard, they’re eating the world.

Instead of chips, we should be looking at the types of deals companies are striking to share APIs and SDKs to build out ecosystems in the connected home, the connected car and whatever other connected venues we want to consider. Because just like software has eaten the world, services are doing the same. And while in an ideal world we’ll see a lot of open implementations of SDKs…