[melhemk]

It will be very intresting to see the answer to this question, the size excuse is a cop out for cost saving, nothing more. You are right on the money when you say less RAM and Less Storage is bad engineering design.

You are wrong here, I can tell you that the cost difference in adding another 1GB is almost negligible compared to the box price, and in fact if there is an option for the hub with 2GB RAM that is 10$ more expensive, which is way more than the cost of adding that second 1GB RAM, or sourcing a different RAM IC, I (and pretty sure many others) will get that one, and this is why I am saying a bad engineering design.

TL;DR - It is not cost saving, it actually made them lose more money.