For Samsung, the foray into the auto industry is also a way to help make up for declining
growth in hardware businesses such as televisions and smartphones.
The people familiar with the project weren't sure what it will ultimately be called, but Amazon's five - year
history in the hardware business suggests an obvious choice: Kindle TV.
I feel like this is the time when Microsoft really should have released the Surface Pro 4... you know, so they could give it a really great out - of - box experience like the Surface Pro 3 had instead of damaging their reputation so quickly after finally starting to be
successful in the hardware business.
Like the Pixel 2, this is a chance to see what a traditional software maker would create if it was
in the hardware business.
Long ago Google displaced Yahoo, and IBM lost out
in the hardware business to the likes of Cisco and Apple.
If this type of model comes into play will Overdrive also want to be
in the hardware business?
CNET: A lot of people, including me, have said that you'd prefer not to be
in the hardware business.
Apple is
in the hardware business and all other product lines — software, media offerings — exist for the sole purpose of raising perceived value and units volume.
Nintendo, like Apple is
in the hardware business and makes a profit from day one.
The Surface Pro 3 established Microsoft as a company that had the chops to make
it in the hardware business, with quarterly sales not only exceeding $ 1 billion - and sales of 3.5 billion in three years - but the immensely positive reception to the device also prompting Apple and Google to reveal their own devices in the image of the Surface line.
This year, the Microsoft Hardware group celebrates its 30th anniversary of being
in the hardware business.
IBM has been
in the hardware business, well since it started decades ago The fact that Oracle execs said they could do better w / hardware than other hardware copanies make them newsworthy.