With the news swirling about the future of Fuelband, chatter has focused on the prospects for wearable hardware moving forward and what moves Nike makes as a result.
The company hoped to foster a new conversation around consumer hardware, moving from a narrative about specs to one about artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Secondly, the hardware moves at such a rapid pace that even with solid software updates, your smart TV will likely be outdated much sooner than you're ready to buy a new one.
The company has continued to update Beats devices, incorporating its W1 bluetooth chip into recent generations of products, but AirPods and HomePod are very clearly the face of the company's music hardware, moving forward.
The company confirmed with TechCrunch that the end of sale also represents the end of life for the device, though Google added that it plans to continue supporting the hardware moving forward.
This week at Mobile World Congress, Motorola followed suit, inviting Amazon on stage to help unveil a partnership that will bring the company's smart home assistant to its hardware moving forward, including, most notably, a Harman Kardon speaker Mod concept for the Moto Z that essentially transforms the phone into a portable Echo.
Chinese music critic Yan Jun said her first album, Inti.mac.y, "sounds like macho artists like Zhou Pei, Li Jianhong and Junky playing around with hardware, moving backward and forward, and creating perversions loudly and aggressively".
Oracle continued to struggle in its recent foray into hardware, a move punctuated by the company's $7.3 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010.
But is the company foregoing Office revenue to help make its money-losing hardware assets move more units?
