So, too, are computer tablets that can serve as giant e-readers, and hardware that will not be very hard at all: a thin display flexible enough to roll up into a tube.
The price for the hardware and software will not be cheap.
The new "Quality of Life" business will involve some sort of combined hardware-software platform, and will not be based around games like Wii Fit, which was a huge hit on the Wii console, or technology like FitBit or Nike's Fuel Band.
It reinforces our view that hardware is a commodity and will not be a differentiator unless tightly coupled with the software," Manish Kapoor, senior vice president of information systems at NuStar Energy L.P., said in an email.
For reasons of brevity, technical details of how the data was recorded and processed by the Gazetracker hardware and Eyetracker toolbox software will not be presented in this manuscript.
As Johnson noted, "Hardware is expensive," however the new cash will not be used only to make hardware, but to sell it, too.
Yes, like some other major hardware releases, the 3DS's launch will not be without hiccups.
But continuing a trend we have been seeing for some time, personal computers — which kicked off the technology love affair for consumers — will not be the hardware reaping the most benefits from that growth.
As the hardware advances the camera sensor capabilities, software will not be far behind.
While it has already been widely reported that there will not be any major hardware announcements at WWDC this year, people seem to be letting their imaginations get the best of them anyway.
