The idea, according to Mr. Stringer, is to bring content from Sony's music and movie companies exclusively to those gadgets, spurring both hardware and software sales.
Both Continental and Bosch are key auto industry suppliers, and this partnership is about Baidu leveraging its experience in machine learning and computer intelligence tech, while its new partners within the industry will focus on spurring the hardware component and systems integration piece of the autonomous systems picture.
I.B.M., the world's largest computer maker by sales, will permit more customers to defer payments or finance purchases at lower interest rates to spur sales of hardware, software and services.
Space Launch System's design called for the integration of existing hardware, spurring criticism that it's a "Frankenstein rocket," with much of it assembled from already developed technology.
Vu says that there's plenty of room on the market for both types of devices, and that discount offerings like those actually spur sales of more premium hardware like the Misfit Shine.
It could spur more adoption of its hardware and software devices in the classroom, even though its new $299 iPads for schools are higher priced than some of the low-end Chromebook options from Google that can range $100 to $150, for example.
There will be improved hardware soon and that will spur some kind of evolution and we'll react to it.
Google and others are pushing telcos which move slowly and generally operate closed networks as a form of quality control to open their networks to outside hardware and software developers, and thus, spur innovation and competition.
Some will spur innovation.
And finally, since new handsets come out all the time, there has been no "point event"–a big generation shift in hardware that could galvanize game makers and spur consumer excitement.
