The Los Angeles based jeweler and luxury slipper maker have just teamed up and are now offering six exquisite shoe styles featuring Hoorsenbuhs's signature polished-but-tough hardware.
Gardner thinks the new year will be a tough one for hardware suppliers, but he is bullish on a few big names.
Access and permissions become issues, for example, and Git can be very tough on the hardware, which makes it hard just to scale the system as teams grow.
Gathering human input for VR/AR headsets has been a tough challenge for hardware manufacturers already steeped in tough challenges, but Leap Motion has been slow to attract manufacturer support despite the sophistication of their hand-tracking platform, which reproduces a virtual skeletal model of the hand using computer vision that updates depending on a user's hand positions.
"With Cisco making a major push in the overseas markets, it is getting tougher for European hardware companies," says Matt Barzowskas, data networking analyst with First Albany Corp., an Albany, N.Y.-based brokerage firm.
All that said, Amazon is going to have a tough battle competing in hardware with the likes of Apple going forward.
Meanwhile, it's getting tougher and tougher to differentiate with mobile hardware.
The problem is chiefly that while its Xbox and Office 365 business are growing quickly, like rival IBM, the traditional PC and hardware market remains a tough, tough game.
Each successive piece of hardware is tougher to crack than its predecessor.
The Android phones that many of us use were never designed with Snapchat in mind, and that can be tough when developing a hardware-based application.
