When software becomes the more important factor in a technology product, you know the hardware is likely to take more of a back seat in years to come. No, high

When software becomes the more important factor in a technology product, you know the hardware is likely to take more of a back seat in years to come. No, high demand for software drives hardware demand. So long as real innovation and advancement continues we will need more processing power & storage to keep up. Market saturation may be reached, but giving people a reason to upgrade ASAP keeps demand up. It's when the apps settle down into stable patterns that the hardware will suffer. The PC market is stagnating because email, web, word processing, and casual games are not demanding more over time (save for what bells and whistles can be forced in), leaving us with a market where a $200 notebook is good enough for most users ... And tablets are eating into that.