TCL has the hardware know-how, and BlackBerry's been quietly doing its thing on the software side of things, while you've been off living your life.
"We believe that Microsoft + Nokia have a lot of the key assets to succeed, from a powerful OS, hardware know-how and, most importantly, building robust third party developer support.
Pre-orders of RK-1 kits start at £150 ($234 U.S .. It's an ambitious product, but its founder has both the software and hardware know-how to make it happen, and this could be a very welcome component for robotics home hobbyists and educators.
Microsoft is dead-set on keeping Windows RT with devices like the Surface 2, but now that it's committed to shelling out $7.2 billion for Nokia's devices business, the folks in Redmond have yet another source of hardware know-how to tap.
Typically, the job goes to information-technology people, for no better reason than that they are usually the only ones who have the necessary access to hardware and software and know how it all works, on the snoop's side as well as the user's.
Wearables may be big this year, but hardware makers don't know how to build them correctly.
Unlike Microsoft, which has to contract with someone to make their hardware for them, weve proved that we know how to make hardware, do manufacturing and reduce cost and size.
"They know how to make hardware (e.g. sensors) and how to add value to the data from that hardware (e.g. applications).
"And so, for me the issue isn't that we know how to make hardware and software work together and the like.
He didn't know how to build hardware.
