Sentence examples for abandoned hardware from inspiring English sources

To adapt, the owners abandoned hardware sales, curtailed technical support, shortened the name of the business (and dropped the apostrophe, because customers did) and moved closer to U.C.L.A., which offers screenwriting classes.

Lo these years gone by, I acquired an electrical engineering degree, and promptly abandoned hardware in favor of software, because software was far more lucrative, interesting and powerful.

The book then skips to Laurel's panhandling days — when meth becomes her everything, replacing the need for food, shelter, clothing, even love — after she stole her father's money, got caught and ran away to live in an abandoned hardware store.

And abandoning hardware entirely would reduce Palm to a software and services firm hardly the place for a consumer-marketing guru.

A single tough year will do little to shake that belief, any more than a couple of financial tumbles would convince Apple to abandon hardware and license iOS and OSX to other companies.

There have been suggestions that Nintendo may be about to abandon hardware production entirely and concentrate on developing its world-respected IP, such as Super Mario Bros, Mario Kart and Zelda on other devices.

An NYT report notes that B&N isn't completely abandoning hardware but will focus more on partnerships with hardware manufacturers and software distributors like Microsoft.

Moving hardware into Windows, for example, isn't abandoning hardware, or slimming it down I wouldn't think — the company wouldn't be shipping new hardware lines, or software to run on its phones if it wanted to shirk the responsibility.

Initially starting as a VOD integrated hardware and content provider, it later abandoned the hardware model for an internet only solution that offered a software interface for Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition.

After a while, Akimbo abandoned the hardware aspect and made itself into a software service that you could use with, say, Windows Media Center.

Many customers in these verticals have abandoned BlackBerry hardware and device management software in recent years, on account of the company's flailing device sales and weak cross platform support.