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> Another important factor: bringing it to market doesn't scale up or down like software does. Besides, software market is much less saturated than hardware. L
by cLeEOGPw 13y ago
> Another important factor: bringing it to market doesn't scale up or down like software does.
Besides, software market is much less saturated than hardware. Like there was a time of electronic device explosion, where a single guy could invent such fundamental things as light bulb, radio or transistor, today is the time where one guy can "invent" yet unseen software.
Besides, their comparison with faster microprocessors I think is unfair, because it requires actual innovation to push currently best hardware further, it is not enough to just reassemble the parts found in different microprocessors to make something new, which kind of is the case with the software.
- pjc50 13y agoI don't agree that the market is saturated; people are building new gadgets all the time, especially "internet of things applications". New applications of techniques like capacitative sensing or innovative radio modulation keep appearing. Not as dramatic as the transistor, but then neither is a lot of software. Edit: not to mention the continuous background delivery of radical innovation keeping Moore's law going. Now down to a feature size of ~200 silicon atoms and still going.
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoYes, I should have said "more saturated", because first electronic devices were around for longer and second physical devices have more limitations than software, thus more difficult to make something new and useful.