The hardware design may be ahead of its competitors, but that really does not matter if the overall operational strategy is wrong.
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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While Apple maintained the top spot for the ninth time in a row through US customers' happiness with the hardware design and ease of use, most of its major competitors made big strides in reliability, speed and camera quality in the past half-year -- to the point where there was a virtual dead heat for second place between HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.
Nokia pulled off the strong early UK showing largely via the unusual hardware design of the Lumia 800.
The stunning hardware and design of the Z10 is on top of every available handsets on the market.
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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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The other new hardware design that is getting attention is glasses and for this we can thank Google (GOOG) and Google Glass.
What I love about the MacBook Air is the design of the hardware.
Well, if you're a young person and you produce the best experiment or design, the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognized for that achievement, too.
Well, if you're a young person and you've produced the best experiment or design, the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognized for that achievement, too.
Given the aggressive pricing, the up-to-date hardware and design, and the software tweaks, the new Kindle Paperwhite sets a high bar for Apple, which will bring out an iPad mini later this month.
More than anything else, the RAZR line is about design and hardware -- the HD series is no different.
Counter intuitively, the hardest part of realizing a decent data infrastructure is not the hardware or technology choice, but the design and architecture of your information system.
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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It's no secret that we're big fans of the HTC One here at Engadget -- we've already written at length about the handset's hardware design, software features and imaging chops.
In addition to providing software, which is where Google's expertise lies, the technology giant is looking to design connected hardware and appliances for the home.
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"One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for all our silicon is that it allows us to build security at the silicon level, " he told the BBC News website.
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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Ironically, positive commentary focuses on the the hardware more than the software, and on the actual design quality (a challenge to Apple).
The company provides engineering services to offload the complexity of maintaining multiple code bases which has proven to be a common issue for smartphone manufacturers, freeing the manufacturer to focus on hardware design and integration.
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Even the guy hired to oversee Home Depot's latest experiments--the high-ticket Expo Design Centers and the smaller-format Villager's Hardware (see box, " Under Construction " )--spends time cruising the aisles.
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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The design of their datacenters, hardware, and network are all fundamentally different.
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If hardware is zeroing in on the optimal design, then how to differentiate a product when all are zeroing in on that optimal design?
"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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The nearly identical hardware makes for a very close rendition, at least if you discount the unavoidable design differences.
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This is the Virta 2 reference design, which will ship to developers soon, with the same basic hardware inside but a few important tweaks.
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Another interesting thing about the development of this engine is the role of software in high-end hardware design.
You need the design and marketing skills to combine hardware and software into a product that will make people go "wow", rather than "whatever".
"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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