[akiselev]

Most hardware companies are decades old and so are most of their established competitors. Until one of the old guard breaks rank or a new competitor manages to break into the industry using software as a clear competitive advantage (i.e. Tesla), the success of tech in general means nothing to them.

It doesn’t even matter how big the companies are or if they’re a “hardware” company. All the lumberyards in my area still use DOS era machines that I’m not even sure are networked. I know that at least one of them runs the whole thing by printing the day’s transactions from each computer and paying a secretary for data entry into their similarly ancient accounting/inventory management software. Cost of land and fuel overwhelm labor costs in the lumber business so there’s zero incentive to even try