He left after a year, empty-handed but subsisting on tech licenses and hardware sales.
Hardware sales influence the sales of software products since they are bundled by storage vendors.
It then allegedly turned around and booked those hardware sales as high-margin software sales.
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Hardware sales were down 37% and software sales were down 25%, while accessory sales rose 5%.
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But in China, for every dollar in hardware sales there is only eight cents in software sales.
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Eventually hardware sales growth will decline, which will likely lead to lower top- line sales growth in general.
Meanwhile, the research firm notes that Apple hardware is single-handedly keeping PC hardware sales about the flat line.
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While hardware sales rose 12% from a year ago, and accessory sales improved 13%, software sales slumped 16%.
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With sufficient consumer adoption, these services all can generate higher margins for Best Buy compared to hardware sales.
Decreased expectations of hardware sales directly affects software sales, but their projections for game sales are more dramatic.
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Hardware sales were down 20% for the month and 27% for the year.
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Apple generates the vast majority of its revenue from hardware sales, not software.
Nintendo's hardware sales may be in a bit of a stupor, but its downloadable games are a different story.
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Hardware sales for the month were down 16% in the month from a year ago, while software was off 8%.
GameStop said that for the holiday period, new hardware sales fell 2.7%, including the sale of 320, 000 Nintendo Wii U units worldwide.
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Most of the drop is credited to a decrease in hardware sales.
The slide includes a 32% drop in hardware sales, a 42% drop in software sales and a 1% rise in sales of accessories.
Apple have always made the bulk of their revenue via hardware sales, driven by great and exclusive software (exclusive to their platforms). iLife?
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Nintendo is counting on these games and third-party titles to drive hardware sales after a somewhat disappointing launch of the new Wii U console.
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Hardware sales were down 5%, while accessory sales were off 6%.
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At the time, Apple was having trouble with selling its computers, and Jobs spent most of his time trying to figure out ways to boost hardware sales.
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Driving the strong month: a 26% jump in software sales, which was accompanied by a 12% increase in hardware sales, and a 20% jump in accessory sales.
Interestingly, while the Wii is winning in hardware sales, Xbox Live is winning on the network side in terms of connectivity and number of downloads, said Daglow.
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While hardware sales of all other systems are slowly winding down, as tends to happen near the end of a console generation, Xbox 360 is spooling up.
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But it does mean that we should be looking a little askance at those claiming that sluggish hardware sales are as a result of a Windows 8 failure.
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In March sales of videogame software in the U.S fell 17%, and videogame hardware sales fell 18%, compared with the corresponding year-ago period, according to market researcher NPD Group.
Over the same period, overall Blu-ray hardware sales (no word on if this includes the PlayStation 3 or not) were down 27 percent and software sales down 5 percent.
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Specifically, the Nielsen Netratings mentioned show HD DVD hardware sales up 37 percent, and software sales up 20 percent from the first to the second quarter of this year.
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To some extent it is this that has enabled Apple to make software like margins on their hardware sales: 30-40% rather than the more usual 10% or so of the hardware world.
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