The phrase
"than hardware" is a comparison that means something is better or more important than physical equipment, such as computers, servers, and other electronic devices.
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Game announcements are just
better than hardware announcements, especially when that hardware isn't anything real new to gamers.
They have much less flexibility
than hardware wallets because each paper wallet only has one public key and one corresponding private key.
I think I'll go to our local nursery and look for an alternative — more expensive
than the hardware store but they know their stuff.
It's a little
cheaper than the hardware option at $ 3.99 per month or $ 39.99 per year, but there won't be a lifetime subscription option.
Is it any wonder that the search engine giant with its own social network has created a more popular
platform than the hardware focused design specialist?
Every single member of a company's staff who uses email or the Internet is also on the front line, and these people are generally considered a softer
target than hardware or software.
There's some occasional image and banner pop - in when scrolling fast through web pages, but it's down to the ludicrous speeds you can scroll at, rather
than hardware constraints.
Focused on software development and licensing lately rather
than hardware production, the slowly recovering Canadian giant is basically open to building any phone as long as it's secure.
It's an even better phone with different software, which is a lot easier to change on a
phone than the hardware — at least until we finally get modular phones.
They do have different hardware; however, when it comes to smart phone cameras, software is much more
important than hardware is.
Either way, if those reports are true for some, it's to do with Sony's launcher rather
than a hardware issue, so Sony will be able to fix this with an update.
Microsoft, with Play Anywhere and now Xbox Games Pass, is becoming more service provider for games
than hardware manufacturer by the day.
Personally, I've always thought of Apple as primarily a software / design company, rather
than a hardware company... that's why it's always been able to charge premium prices, but it's only in the last few years that's become far more obvious financially (as Services becomes a larger / more stand - alone behemoth).
Personally I think this price is inflated because of Motorola's dependency on carriers more
so than hardware.
To that, I hope Connect is August's answer, because platforms are now much more important
than hardware when it comes to the Internet of Things.
Phil Spencer as already announced that he will be looking to show more
games than hardware so expect that there will be tons of games to test out on the Xbox One as well as Project Scorpio.
If that focus on the consumer rather
than the hardware sounds familiar, it's because it's central to Satya Nadella's vision for Microsoft.
The fact is that Apple's services business, more profitable
even than hardware, is becoming a growth engine for the company.
But with Apple, Google, and Microsoft all firmly entrenched in public education — Google's Chromebook is the most popular school option with 5 million units bought by public schools last year alone, while Apple's public school sales in 2015 reached over $ 2 billion — Amazon has taken a content - based approach rather
than a hardware approach.
Without any solution in sight, some consumers have tried some workarounds such as the replacement of the battery itself, but the issue still persisted, bolstering Huawei's position that the problem lies with the Nougat update rather
than a hardware problem.
There's more money to be made on
content than hardware, according to Amazon, and that's how it's able to keep the price of its tablets appealingly low.
The silver lining may be Nintendo focusing in making changes to the software rather
than the hardware in regards to how they design their games moving forward.
But if you care about software more
than hardware changes, stay tuned for Z's impending upgrade to Android Oreo, which Moto has promised is coming in autumn.
To find out why, Fortune posed a simple question to five established researchers working on next - generation batteries, a behavioral economist, and a battery industry executive: Why is battery technology moving so much
slower than hardware?
We think, just like with the iPhone, the best book store (or app store) is a much bigger
deal than hardware when choosing a product.
More
impressive than the hardware is Amazon's custom software (including its cloud - computing - accelerated Silk Browser and unlimited cloud storage for Amazon content) and content ecosystem, which includes Amazon Video on Demand, the Amazon MP3 store, the Amazon Android App Store, and of course the Amazon Kindle Store with over 1 million e-book titles.
It'll require more software
wizardry than hardware magic — and I've got something less than faith in Android or Sony delivering that.
I think this is evidence of software bugs rather
than hardware flaws, because the Pixel C reported surprisingly high upload speeds when it could stay connected to the router — often, upload speeds of several times what it was reporting in download speeds.
The iPad is a more luxurious manga reading experience — its screen size is larger than most printed manga, and the resolution is better — but if you'd rather spend money on
comics than hardware, the Nook looks like a good alternative.