you mean a company that builds the hardware and software for a product? depends on the product. in general, though, with hardware, economies of scale will ten

you mean a company that builds the hardware and software for a product? depends on the product. in general, though, with hardware, economies of scale will tend to outweigh what you're doing unless its a seriously custom piece of hardware. the less customization you need to do, the cheaper it will be to produce.