To me it all boils down to this: hardware is all about making billions of things, all identical. Software is about building innumerable things on top of that ha

To me it all boils down to this: hardware is all about making billions of things, all identical. Software is about building innumerable things on top of that hardware, all different. What would you like it to do, what can be done, how to do it, how to organize a group of people to do it, how to make sure it works and stays working, it's all creative work and it takes time to do it well.