They're screwing things together, and you can't do that as quickly as screwing software together.
Furthermore, with the iPad, Apple has proved that there are significant advantages to designing hardware and software together.
Engineering the hardware and the software together, he said, promises, "better performance, better ease of use, and lower cost".
Using the software together with a headset, which can be plugged into a computer's U.S.B. port, the students can make local or long-distance telephone calls free.
But the tradeoff has been that customers had to put the hardware and software together themselves, even as computing complexity and data-handling demands surged.
Mr Gates and Mr Allen first became friends in 1968 over their Seattle high school Teletype machine, on which they wrote their first software together.
America Online said that Netscape's electronic-commerce software, together with a three-year alliance it is forming with Sun Microsystems, would boost e-commerce.
That is the spirit that led to the free-software and open-source movements, in which volunteers work on software together and make it available to others, often at no cost.
The court sought to set a new standard of determining whether it was appropriate to tie, or bundle, different types of software together, one that would take into greater account how these combinations affect consumers.
"Judging from the majority of news coverage, one might think that companies just throw software together and start selling equipment and running elections, when the reality is just the opposite," Mr. Charles of Sequoia said.
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