This started off as a good thread, but has finally descended into the usual XXX v's YYY.
Full disclosure is not in the interest of any company. A company will always seek to protect its interests and keep its investments safe, whether informational or product specifications or processes. It is how they survive in a competitive market.
You may as well ask them to put a gun to their own heads, their products will hopefully have a USP ( unique selling point ) that ( as RedRobin pointed out) will differentiate their product to give them an edge against the competition.
All good companies will have a policy that will prevent their employees from disclosing anything that a competitor could take advantage of and that is all that these guys on here are doing......protecting their companies interests.
So fellow forumites please don't continue with your attempts at extracting information of a sensitive nature from professionals that are bound by their companies policies as it will end up like this thread......full of keyboard frippery.
frip·per·y
/ˈfripərē/
Noun
Showy or unnecessary ornament in architecture, dress, or language.
A tawdry or frivolous thing.
Thank you everyone and in the words of the Dragon's Den
I'm out!.