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Hardware startup never like software startup, because hardware product built by the whole ecosystem, such as supplier, manufacturer, etc. And software is built

• ibisum 12y ago
  I find it nevertheless amusing that there is some sort of 'special' line in the sand between these apparently two 'divergent fields of focus', because with all computing, from day one, you can't run your software on thin air. (Not yet anyway.) Hardware is where all computing starts - at the very off-switch, which is a physical device. As is all software too, a physical device. You can't have it in the ether .. well you can, and in fact 'the ether' is all software really is, but nevertheless: those bits don't charge/discharge themselves. Well, they do, but.. its a physical thing, dictated across the universe by the distance between a working computer and its conscious user. No user: no usage. No computer: no use. Software can be composed of anything possible between the distance of two real, physical points in the universe: Computer, user. And software always, always, depends on both entities being functionally operational. The point being, all software efforts are hardware efforts too, whether its considered relevant or not to the budget-sheets being run by the economics of the activity, but in the case where hardware is being designed, built, shipped and used by a customer base, there are some tight ropes to walk.