And then there's Google's once-quiet mobile hardware division.
Without Jobs's ambition, constant prodding and the talents that he rapidly developed – high design standards, the ability to make deals and, soon, great marketing skills – Wozniak might well have spent a quiet life designing hardware at HP. Woz could design computers, but Jobs could exploit markets.
Meanwhile, HP has remained quiet on the hardware front.
That device got off to a rocky start, according to analysts, and in the meantime, the company has been fairly quiet on the hardware front, aside from a couple of accessories and a handful of deep discounts on the phone.
If those games, and a stretch of three national championships in the past four seasons, resulted in some Alabama fatigue, in annual dominance taken for granted, the Crimson Tide could ignore the relative quiet and polish its hardware.
Importantly, the elimination of bulky tracking hardware and quiet operation will allow extensive residential deployment of concentrated solar power.
"There's so much hardware trying to quiet the FGB that you could fill this [conference] room with what I call 'Band Aids.' ".
The auteurs responsible for these AV delights are often quiet, men who speak through hardware, keeping their interior lives free of dialogue, preferring to tell their lives through the dulcet tones of their 88 key dream machines.
It eventually develops into and remains a fairly quiet suburban street with beauty shops, hardware stores, gas stations and bookstores for several decades.
Discreet, structured, with subtly gleaming hardware and an air of quiet confidence, the bags compliment the signature dresses, and are strong enough to steal their limelight.
This year has been a fairly quiet one for the company on the hardware front.
