Maybe one lesson is just that hardware companies often radically underestimate how much effort will need putting into the complementary software. Compare the s

Maybe one lesson is just that hardware companies often radically underestimate how much effort will need putting into the complementary software. Compare the start of the touchscreen phone era: it looks to me like companies like Nokia lost to Apple primarily because they didn't have good enough software to go with the hardware. You can point fingers at how Nokia had three different platforms fighting with each other, but maybe that's just a symptom and the real cause was that the software side needed several times the resources it was given.