"In fact, when I became chairman of Sega in 1997, I said we should stop producing hardware".
Reports suggest the San Francisco-based firm is trying to sell off its speaker business and its chief executive recently felt compelled to issue a statement denying rumours that it planned to stop making hardware altogether.
According to a Nikkei report published last week, the company has decided to stop using hardware from Huawei Technologies due to security concerns and replace them over the next several years with equipment by Ericsson and Nokia.
Last year, Vudu stopped making hardware and instead began offering its movie store and simple interactive service as a feature that the largest consumer electronics manufacturers could build into their devices.
If it stops making hardware entirely, it would take the best-known brand of PDA out of circulation.The enthusiasm over Mr Yankowski's arrival in late 1999 was based largely on his background, which suggested that there might be a third way for the company.
Articles like "Google Ends Its Motorola Misadventure" and "Google stops chasing hardware windmills and sells Motorola" capture the zeitgeist of that position.
EMC and Cisco, along with VMWare and Intel, have created a company called Acadia, which they say will offer the same comprehensive one-stop cloud hardware and software shopping as HP and IBM, with more up-to-date equipment.
Atari has long since stopped making hardware; the current leadership team is focused on leveraging IP and brand cachet — and pushing its software development efforts into mobile and social gaming, hence the Zynga tie-up.
LTE uses a lot more power and battery life, and Google's Andy Rubin cites poor user experience on the LTE Galaxy Nexus as a reason to leave LTE out of the Nexus 4. Of course, that hasn't stopped other hardware manufacturers from working around this issue, including LG, which includes LTE radios in its Optimus G smartphone, upon which the Nexus 4 design is based.
"We need to stop Kony with hardware – with military hardware in this case.
