I'm not convinced many software people have the right to get too righteous about this, and the fact is many of our systems that do work do so because someone at

I'm not convinced many software people have the right to get too righteous about this, and the fact is many of our systems that do work do so because someone at MS, Apple or in the open source community wasted some of their lives swearing at someone's drivers. Frankly anything close to hardware, up to and through the driver layer, has a real tendency to barely perform as required. It really seems like if it works enough to show someone it looks like it's working they stop, but we've all seen this attitude applied to higher levels of the software stack, except there it's easier to deal with. The single most telling gadget here is the Chromecast, which successfully nullifies most of the point of smart TVs for <$40, while providing a user experience none of the TV makers got close to.