Continuously participate in the research and design of the technical architecture (including hardware, software and other components), use appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of system architectures.

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Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.

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Do you believe that mobile carriers are to controlling in the actual design (hardware and software) of cellular handsets these days?

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To safely operate in the mobile industry, a company needs to have substantial portfolios in the three main patent areas involved in the design of smartphones: operating system and software, hardware and wireless patents.

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Apple is lauded for hardware design, but has been a bit schizophrenic in terms of design and style with their software.

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To make every application on every Apple device act and feel like every other application on every Apple device, and to have the software of every Apple device echo the hardware design it runs on.

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He was previously responsible for Apple hardware design and in December was promoted to be in charge of the look and feel of its software as well.

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