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right, that's why pure software companies now need to get into hardware, just like, erm, who exactly? do they want to be the next apple? hardware is such a dif
by pinaceae 13y ago
right, that's why pure software companies now need to get into hardware, just like, erm, who exactly? do they want to be the next apple?
hardware is such a different skill and mindset than software, it's not even funny.
- jusben1369 13y agoI don't understand your point. Were you railing on Google when they bought Nest?
- pinaceae 13y agoI said: "well, stick in a fork in Nest then." Does that count? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7053838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7053838
- jusben1369 13y agoYes! As long as you're consistent.
- infinitone 13y agoI think its about the fact that very few software companies can simply birth a hardware engineering division like Google. Its arguable that even Google struggles with it at times. For a software-oriented company such as Facebook and a fairly new one and not the greatest on the balance sheet, its undoubtedly much harder for them to enter the hardware space than Google.